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- Title
The Price Effects of the Delta/Northwest Airline Merger.
- Authors
Luo, Dan
- Abstract
This paper examines the price effects of the merger between Delta Airlines and Northwest Airlines. Empirical analysis finds that, other things equal, the fares for airport-pairs where Delta and Northwest competed with each other prior to the merger did not increase by much following the merger. This result is consistent with the additional finding that the impact of changes in low-cost carrier competition is large while the effect of changes in competition from legacy carriers is slight. Since both Delta and Northwest Airlines are legacy carriers, the results for other legacies suggest that the merger should not have exerted a dramatic impact on fares.
- Subjects
AIRLINE rates; DELTA Air Lines Inc.; NORTHWEST Airlines Corp.; EMPIRICAL research; ECONOMIC competition; ECONOMIC impact
- Publication
Review of Industrial Organization, 2014, Vol 44, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0889-938X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11151-013-9380-1