Airline Economics An Empirical Analysis of Market Structure and Competition in the US Airline Industry /

• Main Author: Tabacco, Giovanni Alberto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Leadership.; Tourism.; Management.; Economic theory.; Industrial organization.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Tourism Management.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms. Examining a cross-section of US airline city pairs, Tabacco proposes for the first time that the industry can be und...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Airline City Pair Market as Natural Oligopolies
• 3. Market Size, Firm Numbers and Market Share Asymmetry
• 4. Entry and Market Sharing Agreements in the U.S. Airline Industry
• 5. Conclusion.