This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding … new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms. Examining a cross-section of US airline city pairs …, Tabacco proposes for the first time that the industry can be understood as a natural oligopoly, each airline market being …

This book reveals how leadership evolves through the story of the American airline industry across the 20th century …

combined to push the industry into a perfect storm. Airline industry profitability has been an elusive goal for several decades … airline business model, successful during the 1980s and 1990s, is now sustainable in a market crowded by low-cost carriers …

This book provides a detailed insight into productivity, efficiency and growth in the Chinese economy, and offers …

Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in … the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks …

Introduction: Theme, Objectives and Structure of the Book -- Methodology: Frontier Efficiency Measurement Techniques … -- Literature Review on Efficiency Studies in the Public Sector -- Applications to German Local Governments -- Summary and …

An Overview of the Pharmaceutical Sector in India -- The sources of Heterogenity in the Efficiency of Indian … Pharmaceutical Firms -- Comparing Efficiency Across Various Groups of Firms: A Meta-Frontier Approach -- Examining the Efficiency … envelopment analysis (DEA), a useful technique for understanding productivity and efficiency. It can provide guidance to the …

Capital Stock using Spatial Frontier Analyses: A First Look at the Data -- Dynamic Technical Efficiency.- Analysing Labour … Productivity in Ecuador -- Hierarchical performance and unobservable heterogeneity in health: A dual-level efficiency approach …This proceedings volume examines state-of-the art of productivity and efficiency analysis and adds to the existing …