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.
Insights from the final panel at the CRA Brussels Conference 2025: Shaping the future of digital regulation and competition
The closing panel from 2025 CRA Brussels Conference, “Digital Regulation in Action: The DMA, AI, and the Future of Competition” moderated by Dr Matteo Foschi