We empirically analyze exchanges of cost information in a multimarket oligopoly model for the airline industry with …

This paper analyzes the impact of varying degrees of airline cooperation on nonstop and connecting international …), although these reductions are not significantly larger than those generated by airline alliances without immunity, while JVs … “online” travel with a single airline. For nonstop passengers, we find that ATI and JV cooperation between airlines does not …

Common ownership fundamentally upsets the well-settled merger enforcement ecosystem. Not only it challenges basic … principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger …-specificity of potential efficiencies but also it works against implementing tools and presumptions in merger practice such as …

Unlike other industries, significant changes in the airline industry have not mainly occurred due to technological … consequence of the deregulation wave which dates back to liberalization of airline sector in the United States in 1978, the … airline sector has gone through drastic changes. Certain procedures and practices pertaining to the airline sector, including …

frequency, passenger connecting costs, airline endogenous hub location and route structure strategic competition. We find that …

This paper explores airline pricing behaviour dealing with two issues. The first is to measure the extent to which … competitive-type. Differently from past contributions, we study airline pricing behaviour removing the influence of intermodal … airline pricing strategies are the straight results of air-related competition. Our results claim that when the intramodal …

frequency, passenger connecting costs, airline endogenous hub location and route structure strategic competition. We find that …

Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services …. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in …

differentiated products over a finite horizon when facing demand fluctuations. I estimate the model in U.S. oligopolistic airline …