The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office resolves patent priority disputes in patent interference cases. Using a random sample of cases declared between 1988 and 1994, we establish a connection between patent interferences and patent races, and then use the data to consider some key issues in...

We study how air travel consumers departing from a multi-airport region trade-off across airport and airline supply characteristics. We empirically investigate this trade-off by estimating a weighted conditional logit model of airport-airline choice, using survey data on travels departing from...