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Airline Deregulation and Market Performance: The Economic Basis for Regulatory Reform and Lessons from the US Experience

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Transport in a Free Market Economy

Abstract

Ever since airline deregulation was first proposed for the United States, it has been the cause of controversy. Proponents have seen little but benefits from it, yet opponents have found much to criticise. The purpose of this paper is to survey the evidence from the United States with the following set of questions in mind.

This paper benefited from support from the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. It has also benefited from the assistance of Melanie Mauldin and the comments of Marjorie Nathanson Keeler, Philip A. Viton, Michael Levine and Clifford Winston.

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Keeler, T.E. (1991). Airline Deregulation and Market Performance: The Economic Basis for Regulatory Reform and Lessons from the US Experience. In: Banister, D., Button, K. (eds) Transport in a Free Market Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11439-9_8

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