Open Skies: Estimating Travelers' Benefits from Free Trade in Airline Services

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Winston, Clifford; Yan, Jia
• 署名单位: Brookings Institution; Washington State University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20130071
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 370-414
• 关键词: antitrust immunity; panel-data

摘要

The United States has negotiated bilateral open skies agreements to deregulate airline competition on US international routes, but little is known about their effects on travelers' welfare and the gains from the US negotiating agreements with more countries. We develop a model of international airline competition to estimate the effects of open skies agreements on fares and flight frequency. We find the agreements have generated at least $4 billion in annual gains to travelers and that travelers would gain an additional $4 billion if the US negotiated agreements with other countries that have a significant amount of international passenger traffic.