Airline Code-share Alliances and Costs: Imposing Concavity on Translog Cost Function Estimation |
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Authors: | Chew?Lian?Chua Hsein?Kew Email author" target="_blank">Jongsay?YongEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) MIAESR, The University of Melbourne, L7, 161 Barry Street, Parkville, Vic, 3010, Australia;(2) National University of Singapore, Singapore |
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Abstract: | This paper provides an assessment of how airline code-share alliances affect the costs of the airline industry. It makes two contributions to the literature. First, it measures the effects of airline alliances by estimating a translog cost function using a panel dataset of 10 major U.S.-based airlines over 29 quarters. Secondly, it ensures concavity of the estimated cost function by using the procedure suggested by Ryan and Wales (2000, Economics Letters 67, 253–260). A conventional translog cost function is first estimated and scale estimates are computed. Unfortunately, the estimated function fails the curvature requirement, which makes interpreting the estimated effects of alliances somewhat dubious. Hence, we re-estimate the cost function by imposing local concavity restrictions. We find that large alliance partners have a small negative effect on airlines costs, but small alliance partners effect on costs appear to be positive, although the magnitude is negligible. We also find material differences in the estimates of scale economies after imposing local concavity.JEL classification: L00, L12, L93 |
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Keywords: | Airline alliances concavity costs translog |
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