Competitive vs. monopolistic routes: Are fares so different?

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 3-8

  Malighetti, Paolo ^a   Redondi, Renato ^b   Salanti, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; Low cost carriers; Market segmentation; Price differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908209129     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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