Tagged: airlines

Pssst! Do you want another US$4 billion? - The Dismal Science

Donal Curtin • Jul 06, 2015 •

• airlines,
• competition

Deregulation of the airline industry is one of the success stories of economics from a number of perspectives (as I wrote earlier here). It's not often that the politicians take the economists' advice, and rarer still when you have well dug-in interest... Read More

Catching up - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Jul 01, 2014 •

• Air New Zealand,
• airlines,
• assorted links,
• housing,
• inequality,
• stadiums

As I’ve been tardy in hoisting posts up to Dismal Science while hitting a few deadlines lately, here are a few of the best from the past week.* Melbourne, population a bit lower than New Zealand, has been consenting at least 1.8 times as many new dwellings as New Zealand lately. They’re doing it explicitly to avoid … Read More