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Working Paper

The Determinants of Airport Hub Locations, Service, and Competition

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Although the airline industry has been studied extensively since passage of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, relatively little effort has gone into examining how hub location affects the level of service and degree of competition found at airports in the system. To help close this gap, we investigate the geographic distribution of airline hub operations, the level of service, and the extent of competition at 112 major U.S. airports, extending previous work by Bauer (1987) and Butler and Huston (1989). Our key innovation is that we derive our measures of service and competition from indicator matrices that describe each airline’s route system.
12.01.1992ISSN 2573-7953 WP 92-18DOI 10.26509/frbc-wp-199218

Working Papers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment on research in progress. They may not have been subject to the formal editorial review accorded official Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Federal Reserve System.

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Bania, Neil, Paul Bauer, and Thomas Zlatoper. 1992. “The Determinants of Airport Hub Locations, Service, and Competition.” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Working Paper No. 92-18. https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-wp-199218