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Vertical Contracts between Airports and Airlines: is there a Trade-off between Welfare and Competitiveness?

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Cristina Barbot () (CETE, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto)
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Airports and airlines have been increasingly establishing vertical contracts, which have a wide variety of forms. These contracts have important implications for policy issues, namely for regulation and price discrimination legislation. In this paper we develop a model to analyse the effects of three types of vertical contracts, in what regards welfare, pro-competitiveness and the scope for regulation. We find that two types of contracts are anti-competitive, and that in all of them consumers are better-off, though in one of them within conditions regarding operational efficiency. We also conclude that regulation may (or may not) improve welfare depending on the type of contract and that price capping has different effects according to the facility the price of which is capped. Moreover, we find that these agreement’s effects exhibit a trade-off between pro-competitiveness and welfare and between price discrimination and welfare.

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Paper provided by Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto in its series CETE Discussion Papers with number 0901.

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Date of creation: Jan 2009
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Keywords: vertical contracts; regulation; airports; airlines.;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
R48 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Transportation Systems - - - Government Pricing; Regulatory Policies
L93 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Air Transportation

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  1. Comanor, William S & Frech, H E, III, 1985. "The Competitive Effects of Vertical Agreements?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 75(3), pages 539-46, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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