In this article, CRA’s Yajing Jiang and her coauthor review the recent economic literature on airline partnerships, explain the intuitions behind canonical economic theoretical models, and summarize the empirical findings of the price and non-price effects of the various forms of partnerships. Given the mixed empirical findings, the article underscores the importance of antitrust practitioners considering facts backed by documents and data when citing numerical estimates from the literature.
Merger simulation in second-score auctions: A nested logit model
In a recent Economics Letters article, CRA’s Martino De Stefano and Serge Moresi show how to improve the second-score auction model that is often used to...