Codesharing has become an essential tool for airline alliances. This paper investigates the effects of codesharing on …

This paper examines the economic consequences of code-sharing agreements (CSA) in the airline market. CSA can be viewed …

efficiency in production by increasing price rigidity to avoid informational costs. Using panel data from the US airline industry …

percent on the affected routes. -- Airline industry ; merger ; market power ; efficiencies ; entry-inducing effects …We investigate the competitive effects of the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines (2009) in the … domestic U.S. airline industry. Applying fixed effects regression models we find that the transaction led to short term price …

I study the pricing behavior of legacy airlines before and after the American Airlines-US Airways merger. Results are … consistent with an increase in price coordination between legacy airlines after the merger. Descriptive evidence suggests the … merger facilitated the observed increase in price coordination. U.S. Airways faced weak incentives to coordinate pricing …

We analyze the effect of mergers on various aspects of airline performance during the period 1970-84, using a panel … merger was 1.1 percentage points lower, during the five-year period centered on the merger, than that of carriers not … involved in merger. Almost all of this cost reduction appears to have been passed on to consumers. Part of the cost reduction …

We study the competitive effects of five liquidations and six mergers in the domestic U.S. airline industry between … larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases … on all affected routes immediately after the exit events. In the medium and long-run, however, realized merger …