Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Stellungen von Flughäfen im Luftverkehrssystem anhand komplementärer industrieökonomischer Theorien. Motivation waren neue Herausforderungen bei der Gestaltung des staatlichen Ordnungsrahmens, die mit der Liberalisierung und Privatisierung der...

This paper studies the regulation of an airline duopoly on a congested airport. Regulation should then address two market failures: uninternalized congestion, and overpricing due to market power. We find that first-best charges are differentiated over airlines if asymmetric, and completely drive...

This paper studies uniform-price auctions for multiple units of airport slots in which the airlines purchase slots for take-off and landing at an airport. It considers strategic behavior on the part of bidding airlines and on the part of airport authority, who acts as a seller and decides supply...

Flight delays are a one of the most costly issues for the US air travel system. Currently, for all the local flights across the US, ~25% flights arrive more than 15 minutes later than scheduled. This leads to significant cost for airports, airlines and passengers. Here, we study one of the...

This paper analyzes slot-based approaches to management of airport congestion, using a model where airlines are asymmetric and internalize airport congestion. Under these circumstances, optimal congestion tolls differ across carriers, and since a slot-sale regime (with its uniform slot price)...

This paper revisits the airline schedule-buffer choice problem analyzed by Brueckner, Czerny and Gaggero (2020) using a simpler model where the random shocks influencing flight times are discrete rather than continuous. The analysis yields closed-form solutions for the flight and ground buffers...

Slot controls (restrictions on the number of departing and arriving flights) are implemented at over 200 capacity constrained airports worldwide to mitigate persistent congestion and delays. However, evidence is limited regarding the effectiveness of these policies. This paper uses a...

This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A continuous spatial model illustrates this trade-off in a framework where a small gap between flight operating times raises congestion while also shortening a connecting...

This paper presents an extensive theoretical and empirical analysis of the choice of schedule buffers by airlines. With airline delays a continuing problem around the world, such an under-taking is valuable, and its lessons extend to other passenger transportation sectors. One useful lesson from...