This paper examines the relationship between the control of airport slots by major airlines and their incentives to … concentration through mergers aiming at erecting airport barriers to entry. We develop an econometric model of flight disruptions by …

This dissertation consists of four related studies on the assessment of decentralized welfare-maximizing airport … congestion policies involving (grandfathered) slot policy and pricing policy. Different demand structures and airport networks … involve slots when airport profits do not matter and pricing policies when airport profits matter. The main results show that …

The likely resurgence of air traffic in the U.S. means that airport congestion is a problem that must soon be … theory says that the congestion tolls levied on the various airlines at a particular airport should generally be different …, with the tolls being inversely related to a carrier's airport flight share. Internalization of airport congestion is the …

operate and the way airport capacity is allocated and priced. Regression analysis of over 500 routes in the US, Europe and ….g. distance, level of demand and level of competition) and almost not at all by airport characteristics (e.g. number of runways … and whether the airport is a hub or slot coordinated). We discuss the implications of this choice of aircraft size and …