Economies of scale in the US airline industry after deregulation: A Fourier series approximation

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 321-336

  Creel, Michael ^a   Farell, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Airlines; Cost function estimation; Flexible functional form; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATING; COST FUNCTIONS; FOURIER SERIES;

COST FUNCTION ESTIMATION; COST-FUNCTION; ECONOMY OF SCALE; FLEXIBLE FUNCTIONAL FORM; FOURIER; FUNCTION ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; RETURN TO SCALE; SERIES APPROXIMATIONS; US AIRLINE INDUSTRY;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

AIRLINE INDUSTRY; DEREGULATION; ECONOMY OF SCALE; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034898941     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-5545(00)00025-9     Document Type: Article

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