Industry update: Airlines

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-51

  Brock, James W ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airlines; Alliances; Monopoly; Predatory pricing

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MONOPOLY;

EID: 0034055459     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007827307510     Document Type: Article

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