This paper estimates a model of airline competition for the Spanish air transport market. I test the explanatory power of alternative oligopoly models with capacity constraints. In addition, I analyse the degree of density economies. Results show that Spanish airlines conduct follows a price-leadership scheme so that it is less competitive than the Cournot solution. I also find evidence that thin routes can be considered as natural monopolies.
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Paper provided by Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia in its series Working Papers in Economics with number
125.
Length: 27 pages Date of creation: 2004 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:bar:bedcje:2004125
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Deneckere, Raymond J & Kovenock, Dan, 1992.
"Price Leadership,"
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Raymond Deneckere & Dan Kovenock, 1988.
"Price Leadership,"
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773, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science.
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