Airline competition and domestic US airfares: A comprehensivereappraisal

Economics of Transportation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Brueckner, Jan K ^a   Lee, Darin ^b   Singer, Ethan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Compass Lexecon ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airfares; Airlines; Competition; Merger

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873953337     PISSN: 22120122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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