New evidence on airline mergers : a study on 9 recent U.S. airline mergers.

• Main Authors: Lee, Da Wei., Lim, Xie Mai., Tee, Alstone Jia Loong.
• Other Authors: Tham Tze Minn
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51534
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Advocates of airline mergers often cite declining average airfares over the last decade and efficiency gains as defences against anti-competitive concerns. We investigate this contention by examining price changes on 101 overlapped routes of 9 mergers from 1997 to 2011. Noting the absence of researc...