, competitive asymmetry, presuming that the competition among the companies is not equal and rivals do not consider each other at …

towards international airline competition. While the policies of the 1980s and 90s were designed to maximize industry … have sought to reduce competition and entrench the position of the largest carriers. These policies have already led to the … large legacy airlines and government officials could dramatically restructure international airline competition in favor of …

Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

cooperation in order to expand their geographical coverage independently from the market leader. In order to shed light on the … effects of cooperation, I conducted a theoretical analysis using a spatial economic model complemented by a brief game … analysis as well as in the evidence - that there is a negative counter-effect stemming from this cooperation. …

and decreases prices through accessibility to air transport service and actual competition, respectively. Also, structural …

This paper explores the impacts of competition level on airline scheduling in the Korean domestic short-haul routes … airline panel data for the period 2006–2010 suggest that competition leads to less differentiated departure flight times as … expected from spatial competition theory. Unlike the previous study on the U.S airline industry, the degree of this tendency …

European Community have been removed. This paper concentrates on the effects of increased competition on fare behaviour. It …, North Africa, Middle East). Using an index of competitive pressure on Alitalia, we find that competition is stronger in the … EC than elsewhere in the medium-range markets. Moreover, increases in the degree of competition cause average fares to …

expansion of low-cost carriers must be considered as the main driver of competition in the domestic U.S. airline industry …

be treated like most other industries and be subject only to normal competition law. Three factors underlie the changed … airport competition merely guilds the lily. Any residual concerns regarding market dominance and possible abuse have then to … competition issues are of a type better handled through the application of normal competition law …