DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO HOST ANTITRUST WORKSHOP ON AIRLINE
COMPETITION
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division today announced it will host a
one-day workshop on recent academic research into developments in airline antitrust and
competition to mark the 30-year anniversary of airline deregulation in the United States.
The event, which is open to the public and the press, will be held on Thursday, Oct. 23,
2008. The workshop will be held from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in the Horizon Room of the Ronald
Reagan Building and International Trade Center located at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C., 20004. The workshop will include a keynote lecture followed by three sessions
of economic research paper presentations. Each research paper will be presented by an author of
the paper. There will be no discussion at the workshop of any matter that is pending before the
Department. The current schedule is as follows:
9:00am–10:00am |
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Keynote Lecture
Speaker: Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business
Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, University of
California, Berkeley; Director of the University of California Energy
Institute; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
(NBER)
Paper: "How Airline Markets Work...Or Do They? Regulatory Reform in
the Airline Industry" by Severin Borenstein and Nancy Rose (Professor of
Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Research Associate,
NBER)
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10:15am–12:00pm |
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Session 1: Airline Competition, Financial Volatility and Recent Trends
Presenter: Panle Jia, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
Paper: "Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry" by Steven Berry (James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics, Yale
University, and Research Associate, NBER) and Panle Jia
Presenter: Federico Ciliberto, Assistant Professor, Department of
Economics, University of Virginia
Paper: "Bankruptcy and Product-Market Competition: Evidence from the
Airline Industry" by Federico Ciliberto and Carola Schenone (Assistant
Professor, Finance Area, McIntire School of Commerce, University of
Virginia)
Presenter: Rene Kamita, Economist, Economic Analysis Group, Antitrust
Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Paper: "Analyzing the Impact of Antitrust Immunity: Price Effects
Following the Aloha-Hawaiian Antitrust Immunity Agreement" by Rene
Kamita
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1:15pm–2:30pm | | Session 2: Airline Competition, Airport Delays and Congestion
Presenter: Cliff Winston, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings
Institution
Paper: "Airline Delays: Can Airport Privatization Help?" by Cliff Winston
and Steven Morrison (Professor, Department of Economics, Northeastern
University)
Presenter: Jan Brueckner, Professor, Department of Economics, University
of California, Irvine
Paper: "Price vs. Quantity-Based Approaches to Airport Congestion
Management" by Jan Brueckner
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2:45pm–4:00pm | | Session 3: Airline Competition, Entry and Potential Competition
Presenter: Abe Dunn, Economist, Economic Analysis Group, Antitrust
Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Paper: "Do Low Quality Products Affect High Quality Entry? Multiproduct
Firms and Nonstop Entry in Airline Markets" by Abe Dunn
Presenter: John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of
Economics, Northeastern University
Paper: "Eliminating a Competitive Constraint: The Price Effect of Merging
with a Potential Entrant in Airlines" by John Kwoka and Evgenia
Shumilkina (PhD student and lecturer, Department of Economics,
Northeastern University)
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There is no fee for attendance and there is no preregistration. For admission to the workshop and
to the Ronald Reagan Building, all attendees will be required to show a valid form of photo
identification, such as a driver's license. Links to the research papers that will be presented at the
workshop and information about the workshop can be found on the Antitrust Division's web site at
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/workshops/airlines2008/index.htm.
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