Alessandro Cento

Alessandro Cento
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | VU · Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Phd

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This paper presents a model of second-degree price discrimination and intergroup effects. Consumer heterogeneity is assumed on both a horizontal and a vertical dimension, while various distinct market structures, some of which include low-cost carriers (LCCs), are considered. We theoretically show that the rivalry among full-service carriers (FSCs)...
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This paper investigates the price-setting behavior of full-service airlines in the European passenger aviation market. We develop a model of airline competition, which accommodates various market structures, some of which include low-cost players. Using data on published airfares of Lufthansa, British Airways, Alitalia and KLM for the main city-pai...
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We collect data on published fares for the route London-Amsterdam to shed some light on the pricing practices of low-cost and legacy carriers, when operating in a large and crowded market. We investigate the reach of two strategies of segmentation involving the time before departure the ticket has been bought (inter-temporal segmentation) and the d...
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This paper presents a model of second-degree price discrimination and inter-group effects to describe the full-service pricing behavior in the passenger aviation market. Consumer heterogeneity is assumed on both a horizontal and a vertical dimension, while various distinct market structures, some of which include low-cost carriers (LCCs), are consi...
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Information, communication and transport networks have always been in a state of flux, while they also influence each other. Extensive research efforts have been made to investigate the dynamics in the structure and use of networks, e.g., by means of network geometries, small-world effects and scale-free phenomena. We will illustrate these new deve...
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Information, communication and transport networks have always been in a state of flux, while they also influence each other. Extensive research efforts have been made to investigate the dynamics in the structure and use of networks, for example, by means of network geometries, Small-World effects and Scale-Free phenomena. We will illustrate these n...
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The aviation industry has registered 4-6% growth and faced one of the biggest booms in its history in the form of worldwide increases in GDP and a greater demand for travel resulting from globalization. The market deregulation in the US in 1978 mainly affected the network strategy of carriers, with numerous 'trunkline' carriers rapidly reviving the...
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Air transport networks have exhibited a trend towards complex dynamics in recent years. Using Lufthansa's networks as an example, this paper aims to illustrate the relevance of various network indicators - such as connectivity and concentration - for the empirical analysis of airline network configurations. The results highlight the actual strategi...
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A low-cost carrier (LCC) has been defined, in Chap. 2, as an airline designed to have a competitive advantage in terms of costs over a full-service carrier (FSC). An LCC relies on a very simple firm organization and logistic principles. In Chaps. 5 and 6 we try to explain the airline supply process by analysing the LCC versus the FSC network config...
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Air transport networks have exhibited a trend towards complex dynamics in recent years. Using Lufthansa’s networks as an example, this paper aims to illustrate the relevance of various network indicators – such as connectivity and concentration – for the empirical analysis of airline network configurations. The results highlight the actual strategi...
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This paper aims to provide new measures of airline network configuration with a view to analyse effectively the complexity of modern carriers' network design. It studies network configurations in the airline sector by taking into account both spatial and temporal dimensions. The spatial dimension is measured by using both the Gini index and the Fre...
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The paper identifies conditions under which asymmetric equilibria may exist when carriers compete in designing their network configurations in a game-theoretical framework. Two carriers are assumed here, which are allowed to play three different strategies: point-to-point (PP), hub-and-spoke (HS) or multi-hub. We find two main stable outcomes, whic...
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Airlines network choices are analysed to describe the co-existence of alternative business models: the full service model based on the hub-and-spoke (HS) system and the low cost model based on point-to-point (PP) system. The analysis is carried on both theoretically and empirically. In the theoretical part, we show that the rise of the low costs bu...
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This paper investigates the response of full service carriers (FSCs) to the entry of low-cost carriers (LCCs). We develop a model of airline competition, which accommodates various market structures, some of which include low-cost players. Using data on published airfares of Lufthansa, British Airways, Alitalia and KLM for the main city-pairs from...
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The paper analyses the reorganisation that European carriers have implemented after September 11 in the transatlantic flights. We model carriers’ conduct as a mixture of short- and long-term goals, where the weights depend on firm-specific variables (adjustment costs, financial situation) and subjective expectations on the crisis duration. Data pro...
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This paper analyses the reorganisation that European carriers have implemented after September 11th in the transatlanticflights. We model carriers' conduct as a mixture of short- and long-term goals where the weights depend on firm-specific variables (adjustment costs, financial sit- uation) and subjective expectations on the crisis duration. Data...
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Samenvatting in het Nederlands. Proefschrift Amsterdam, VU. Met lit.opg.

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