We consider strategic behavior and the socially optimal requirements for customers to place duplicate orders with the intention of speeding up their service. We first study a situation in which customers place duplicate orders in a one-server, random order service system. We demonstrate that...

This paper takes up the debate whether price-cap regulation of airports should take the form of single-till or dual-till regulation. The contribution is to model single- and dual-till regulation, evaluate their welfare implications, and compare them to Ramsey prices. We show that the single-till...

Congestion has become a problem for many airports throughout the world. Two different policy options to control congestion are analyzed in this paper: slot constraints and congestion pricing. In particular, our model takes into account that the airline industry is characterized by significant...