DOES AIRPORT REGULATION BENEFIT CONSUMERS?

One goal of airport regulation is to impose price caps or other schemes on services supplied by airports to airlines that use them. However, it is not clear that regulation ultimately benefits the passengers. In the context of a very simple model, this paper finds out that this doesn't always happen, and that passengers may be worse off with price capping than in an unregulated equilibrium. In addition, the paper provides insights into the results of other regulation approaches that have been suggested for airports.

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  Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali

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• Authors:
  • Barbot, C
• Publication Date: 2003-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 251-262
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Transport Economics = Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Fabrizio Serra
  • ISSN: 0391-8440
  • EISSN: 1724-2185

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation policy; Airport operations; Airports; Consumers; Equilibrium (Economics); Pricing; Regulatory constraints
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airport services
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00961688
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 2003 12:00AM