Hotelling in the air? Flight departures in Norway

被引:25
作者
Salvanes, KG [1 ]
Steen, F [1 ]
Sorgard, L [1 ]
机构
[1] Norwegian Sch Econ & Business Adm, Dept Econ, N-5045 Bergen, Norway
关键词
competition on location; airlines; panel data models;
D O I
10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2003.10.001
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
The purpose of this study is to test empirically the degree of departure-time differentiation in the Norwegian airline industry, where we observed both monopoly and duopoly routes following deregulation in 1994. By constructing a waiting cost index where we measure degree of clustering of departure times during a day on 12 different routes before and after deregulation, we can use an econometric panel data test to see whether there have been systematic changes in localisation of departures. We find that after deregulation the clustering of flights increases on duopoly routes as compared to monopoly routes. When we focus on the more narrowly defined business segment we find an even clearer pattern of flight clustering after deregulation. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:193 / 213
页数:21
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