mergers affect product quality largely unanswered. This paper empirically investigates this issue for two recent airline … diminish competitive pressure for quality provision, we find: (i) each merger is associated with a quality increase in markets … where the merging firms did not compete pre-merger, but with a quality decrease in markets where they did; and (ii) the …

October 1990. This study reviews the developments in the last few months of regulation and in the first year of deregulation …. Based on the first year's evidence, deregulation of domestic aviation in Australia has, from the consumer's perspective … benefits to consumers in terms of lower fares and improved servcie quality. In particular, discount air fares have been much …

available definitions of the concept quality in order to find or propose a valid and reliable definition of quality. …

This paper examines the relationship between airline profitability and market share in the context of contemporary … some of the organizational goals airlines pursue, and develops a situation assessment template for the airline industry … draw some conclusions about the impact of different business strategies on airline profitability and market share. This is …

Japanese “Big Bang” deregulation from its start in 1996 to completion in 2001, and the following eight years. On profitability … see a steady decline in profitability. In addition, the main targets of the deregulation (and the most active in mergers … profitability and efficiency declines on the whole, and the main targets of the deregulation, the big city, trust and long …

-financial measures can substantially enhance profitability, albeit being subject to cost constraints.To begin with, the evolution of …. The focus of the argument is on the suitability of nonfinancial measures on the evaluation of profitability through …