Airline alliances, antitrust immunity and market foreclosure
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- Volodymyr Bilotkach & Kai Hüschelrath, 2013. "Airline Alliances, Antitrust Immunity, and Market Foreclosure," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 95(4), pages 1368-1385, October.
- Bilotkach, Volodymyr & Hüschelrath, Kai, 2010. "Airline alliances, antitrust immunity and market foreclosure," ZEW Discussion Papers 10-083, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
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Keywords
air transportation; alliances; antitrust immunity; foreclosure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- L93 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Air Transportation
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2012-11-24 (Business Economics)
- NEP-COM-2012-11-24 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-HME-2012-11-24 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-IND-2012-11-24 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-TRE-2012-11-24 (Transport Economics)
- NEP-URE-2012-11-24 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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