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.
CRA engagements win in 2024 GCR Awards
The high-profile acquisition of Activision by Microsoft, which CRA Competition’s teams advised on was named overall Matter of the Year, as well as Matter of...