This paper sheds light on a recent empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination in … sales that is more skewed towards low prices. We show that whether competition has a positive or a negative effect on the …

develop a model of airline competition, which accommodates various market structures, some of which include low-cost players … rest of Europe, our statistical modelling resu1ts confirm the conclusions of the theoretical model. Competition among FSCs … appears to affect the price levels of business and leisure segments asymmetrically. In contrast, competition with LCCs reduces …

rest of Europe, our statistical modelling resu1ts confirm theconclusions of the theoretical model. Competition among FSCs … appears toaffect the price levels of business and leisure segments asymmetrically. Incontrast, competition with LCCs reduces …

We consider price-fee competition in bilateral oligopolies with perfectly-divisible goods, non … competition. Competition in both prices and fees necessarily emerges. It improves welfare compared to price competition, but …

This paper extends Hotelling's model of price competition with quadratic transportation costs from a line to graphs. I … of graph models of price competition is that spatial discontinuities in firm-level demand may occur. I show that the …