Econometric modelling of the scheduled duration of 2010 flights between 57 origin and 375 destination airports in the year 2009 supports hypotheses (a) that airlines will incorporate realistic predictions of aircraft time on the ground into their published schedules, and (b) that this time will...

The article uses data on all the firms in sixteen Canadian food and beverage manufacturing industries to examine intra-industry profitability differences. The skewedness of profit performance within industries is informative for the debate on whether interindustry profitability differences in...

The model of price discrimination in Cournot-Nash oligopoly is extended to the case of many prices, analogous to 1st degree monopoly price discrimination. In the limit all viable customers are served, but the price charged the keenest customers is well below the highest price charged by a monopoly.

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This Comment tests empirically the important proposition made by Palma in this journal (Development and Change, 2011) that deciles 5 to 9 of the income distribution across developing economies have been able to secure and defend a stable share (around 50 per cent) of the...</p>

In markets for scheduled passenger travel services, demand may be not independent of supply. On airline routes the speed, convenience and frequency of services affect demand along with price and other economic factors. This generates the possibility of multiple equilibria. For 185 domestic...

The paper analyses more than ten thousand observations on prices charged for air travel on 1001 flights on eight New Zealand and twenty one trans-Tasman flights observed in 2004 and 2005. The main findings are (i) that routes on which Qantas competes with Air New Zealand tend to have air fares...