Estimation of market power in the presence of firm level inefficiencies

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-155

  Kutlu, Levent ^a   Sickles, Robin C ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline competition; Dynamic games; Kalman filter; Market power; Panel data; Suboptimal allocations

Indexed keywords

AIRLINE COMPETITION; DYNAMIC GAMES; MARKET POWER; PANEL DATA; SUB-OPTIMAL ALLOCATIONS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COMMERCE; COMPETITION; COST ESTIMATING; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRY; KALMAN FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858159127     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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