Bradley H. Weidenhammer

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Compatibility and Interconnection Pricing in the Airline Industry: A Proposal for Reform

114 Yale L.J. 405 (2004) Where rival firms compete in a network industry, compatibility among all firms maximizes the size, density, and total value of the network by combining rivals into a single network. Applying network-compatibility theory to the airline industry suggests that major carriers have an incentive to thwart interairline compatibility, which they accomplish by making it prohibitively costly...

Nov 20, 2004