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Airline Partnerships, Antitrust Immunity, and Joint Ventures: What We Know and What I Think We Would Like to Know

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Volodymyr Bilotkach

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Abstract

This paper offers an overview of the state of research on airline partnerships and related issues (antitrust immunity and joint ventures). While at the high level the potential pro- and anti-competitive effects of various forms of airline partnerships are well understood; a number of important gaps in our knowledge remain. For instance, academic research is yet to develop a clear way to differentiate between codesharing with and without immunity, and joint ventures using conventional IO modelling apparatus. Developing such theoretical models can be useful for policy makers. Future empirical research should focus on understanding effects of joint ventures, as well as evaluating efficiency benefits of airline partnerships, and determining whether multimarket contact and repeated interaction could have led to the competitive environment that is conducive to tacit collusion.

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Author(s): Bilotkach V

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Review of Industrial Organization

Year: 2019

Volume: 54

Issue: 1

Pages: 37-60

Print publication date: 02/02/2019

Online publication date: 05/06/2018

Acceptance date: 27/11/2017

Date deposited: 29/01/2018

ISSN (print): 0889-938X

ISSN (electronic): 1573-7160

Publisher: Springer New York LLC

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-018-9636-x

DOI: 10.1007/s11151-018-9636-x

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