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Haskel, Jonathan, Iozzi, Alberto and Valletti, Tommaso (2013) 'Market structure, countervailing power and price discrimination: The case of airports.' Journal of Urban Economics, 74. pp. 12-26.

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Abstract

A number of interesting policy questions have arisen regarding airport landing fees. For example, what is the impact of joint ownership of airports? Does airline countervailing power stop airports raising fees? Should airports be prohibited, as an EU directive intends, from charging differential input prices to airlines? We set out a model of upstream airports and downstream airlines with varying countervailing power and pricing structures. Our major findings are: (a) an increase in upstream concentration or in the degree of differentiation between airports always increases the landing fee; (b) the effect of countervailing power, via an increase in downstream concentration, lowers landing fees, but typically does not pass through to consumers; (c) with Cournot competition, uniform landing fees are always higher than discriminatory fees.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > School of Finance and Management
ISSN: 00941190
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2012.09.002
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2013 09:19
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/17205

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