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OECD Economics Department Working Papers

Working papers from the Economics Department of the OECD that cover the full range of the Department’s work including the economic situation, policy analysis and projections; fiscal policy, public expenditure and taxation; and structural issues including ageing, growth and productivity, migration, environment, human capital, housing, trade and investment, labour markets, regulatory reform, competition, health, and other issues.

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Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Air Passenger Transportation

The paper uses a data base on regulation, market structure and performance in the air passenger transportation industry, to analyse the links among liberalisation, private ownership, competition, efficiency and airfares at national and route levels. Covering the 1996-97 travel season, 21 aggregate indicators have been developed for 27 OECD countries, and 23 micro indicators for 102 air routes connecting 14 major international airports. These data, summarised by means of factor analysis show that i) regulations affecting the air industry vary heavily across countries and routes; ii) in most markets, air services are still provided by a few carriers, generally dominated by an incumbent flag-carrier or by an airline alliance between incumbents; iii) only in a few cases new entrant airlines play a significant role; iv) in a large number of airports, a single airline controls more than half of the available slots; v) as a result, few international routes are truly open to ...

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Keywords: economics of regulation, competition, business strategy, market structure, air transport, liberalisation, regulated industries
JEL: L93: Industrial Organization / Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities / Air Transportation; K23: Law and Economics / Regulation and Business Law / Regulated Industries and Administrative Law; L1: Industrial Organization / Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance; L51: Industrial Organization / Regulation and Industrial Policy / Economics of Regulation; L32: Industrial Organization / Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise / Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
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