Die Monopolkommission hat in ihrem Hauptgutachten 'Wettbewerb 2016' die Wettbewerbssituation auf Verkehrsflughäfen betrachtet. Sie bemängelt dabei insbesondere die Doppelrolle der öffentlichen Hand, die sowohl Eigentümer als auch Aufsichtsbehörde 'ihrer' Flughäfen ist. Die Kommission...

Since airlines were deregulated, shareholders, management and workers, already well organized, have suffered severe, sometimes catastrophic losses, while the benefits have been spread among unorganized consumers and the investors and managers of new entrant airlines, which themselves have had a...

The commercialization of air taxis and autonomous passenger drones will one day congest urban airspace. Operators expect that, once flights are autonomous and the cost of service falls, high traffic urban “vertiports” could see hundreds of air taxi takeoffs and landings per hour. Low...

The commercialization of air taxis and autonomous passenger drones will one day congest urban airspace. Operators expect that, once flights are autonomous and the cost of service falls, high-traffic urban “vertiports” could see hundreds of air taxi takeoffs and landings per hour....

This paper studies the behavior of the air traffic control (ATC) centers in the EU. We investigate the functioning of the European ATC sector with a union bargaining model. In this model, working conditions are the outcome of a bargaining game between the public air traffic control agency and...

Die Monopolkommission hat in ihrem Hauptgutachten „Wettbewerb 2016“ die Wettbewerbssituation auf Verkehrsflughäfen betrachtet. Sie bemängelt dabei insbesondere die Doppelrolle der öffentlichen Hand, die sowohl Eigentümer als auch Aufsichtsbehörde „ihrer“ Flughäfen ist. Die...

This paper analyzes single-till and dual-till regulations in terms of social welfare. We clarify two conditions to determine which regulation yields a higher welfare. The first condition is whether the solutions under welfare maximization yield positive or negative regulatory profits. The second...

Reviews the various articles of the IIR2001, and lays out the theme of having the appropriate market structure and regulation in various sectors of physical infrastructure including electricity, telecom, water and sewage, transportation and energy

Grandfather rights are currently used in the European Union to allocate airport slots. This article shows that airports prefer such a use-it-or-lose-it rule to unconditional property rights. Assuming that there are informational asymmetries between airports and air carriers because air carriers...

Conventional economic wisdom suggests that congestion pricing would be an appropriate response to cope with the growing congestion levels currently experienced at many airports. Several characteristics of aviation markets, however, may make naive congestion prices equal to the value of marginal...