healthy airlines are inclined to reduce flights. Moreover, from a consumer and policy perspective, the real concern is total … recognizing that competing airlines may increase service in response to a reduction in flights by a bankrupt airline. We do not …

The entry of High-Speed Railways (HSR) represents a disruptive competition to airlines, particularly for short- to … entry on the quality of service provided by airlines as proxied by their on-time performance, and to identify the channels … through which competition leads to quality improvement. We document two main findings. First, the competition from the entry …

variation in airlines fares is substantial: the expected absolute difference in fares between two of an airline's passengers on … airlines. We argue that the data support an explanation based on theories of price discrimination in monopolistically …

partners. Finally, we find that the size of the fare effect of the alliance depends on the pre-alliance level of competition on … a city pair with the effect being larger on those city pairs where the level of competition was relatively low …

This paper models the international competition between a domestic firm and its vertically integrated foreign rival …

new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to … secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …

the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that …, firms in competitive industries experience no significant effect. When we examine which agency problem competition mitigates …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of “structured” management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

imposed substantial costs on travelers, airlines, and government agencies in terms of flight delays and cancellations. Using … data from the year following September 11th, this study examines how airlines recover flight schedules upon reopening of …