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Collude, Compete, or Both? Deregulation in the Norwegian Airline Industry

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to test the nature of competition concerning price and capacity setting in the Norwegian airline industry after its deregulation in 1994. Did the two airlines, SAS and Braathens, compete on prices and capacities (competition), collude on prices and capacities (collusion), or collude on prices and compete on capacities (semicollusion)? We reject the hypothesis that they achieved collusion, and we find the observed behaviour consistent with semicollusive behaviour and inconsistent with competitive behaviour.

Source: Journal of Transport Economics and Policy

DOI: 10.3828/jtep.2003.37.3.383

Authors: Kjell G. Salvanes, Frode Steen, Lars Sørgard

Institution: Norwegian School of Economics

Language: English

Topic: Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends

Subfield: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Norges Forskningsråd

OpenAlex ID: W2200851967

FWCI: 2.031

Cites: 32

Cited by: 15

Related to: 10