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Competition and coordination in the U.S. Airline hub-to-hub markets: an industry pre-merger case study
dc.contributor.author | Bhattacharjee, Prasun |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-14T12:07:38Z |
dc.date.available | 2016-07-14T12:07:38Z |
dc.date.issued | 2016-06 |
dc.identifier.citation | Bhattacharjee, Prasun. Competition and coordination in the U.S. Airline hub-to-hub markets: an industry pre-merger case study. "Journal of Airline and Airport Management", Juny 2016, vol. 6, núm. 1, p. 92-113. |
dc.identifier.issn | 2014-4806 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2117/88805 |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose: This paper investigates the nature of conduct that existed in the U.S. airline hub-to-hub markets prior to the recent merger wave of the legacy carriers. We explore the strategic importance of network carrier hubs in form of “spheres of influence” on airline market conduct. We also simultaneously recognize the overgrowing role played by Low Cost Carriers (LCC) over the years by estimating two conduct parameters - one in markets where LCCs directly compete head-to-head with legacy carriers and the other for markets which LCCs do not serve but has presence in the hub airports or adjacent airports comprising the market endpoints. Thus our supply side framework also sheds some light on the issue of perfect contestability in airline industry. Design/methodology: We estimate a structural oligopoly model for differentiated products with competitive interactions using DB1B data for first quarter of 2004. Findings: Our results imply that the nature of competition is more aggressive relative to Bertrand behavior in hub-to-hub markets and that these markets are less than perfectly contestable. Originality/value: This paper adds to the empirical literature of airline competition by enabling estimation of the actual conduct parameter assuming firm price setting behavior in presence of product differentiation. Contrary to existing literature on airline competition, a structural model enables us to systematically separate out effects of demand, cost and strategic factors on observed airline prices. |
dc.format.extent | 22 p. |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | Omnia Science |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Spain |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ |
dc.subject | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Infraestructures i modelització dels transports::Infraestructures i transport aeri |
dc.subject.lcsh | Airlines--United States |
dc.subject.lcsh | Aeronautics, Commercial--United States |
dc.subject.other | Structural oligopoly |
dc.subject.other | Product differentiation |
dc.subject.other | Conduct |
dc.subject.other | Airline competition |
dc.subject.other | Contestability |
dc.subject.other | Low cost carriers |
dc.subject.other | Spheres of influence |
dc.subject.other | Hubt-to-hub markets |
dc.title | Competition and coordination in the U.S. Airline hub-to-hub markets: an industry pre-merger case study |
dc.type | Article |
dc.subject.lemac | Línies aèries |
dc.subject.lemac | Línies aèries -- Estats Units d'Amèrica |
dc.subject.lemac | Aviació comercial -- Estats Units d'Amèrica |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3926/jairm.50 |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed |
dc.rights.access | Open Access |
local.citation.publicationName | Journal of Airline and Airport Management |
local.citation.volume | 6 |
local.citation.number | 1 |
local.citation.startingPage | 92 |
local.citation.endingPage | 113 |