-cost carrier (LCC). In particular, we investigate whether the increased competition from a recently established LCC induces major …

This paper examines the economic consequences of code-sharing agreements (CSA) in the airline market. CSA can be viewed … understand how and to what extent CSA distorts market competition among airlines. With an application to Japanese domestic … airlines, structural estimates of our demand and supply models indicate that CSA would significantly lessen market competition …

variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline's frequency on a route to … multimarket contact generates mutual forbearance in frequency competition, finding no evidence for such an effect. -- airlines …