Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry

Steven L. Puller, Anirban Sengupta, Steven N. Wiggins

NBER Working Paper No. 15555
Issued in December 2009

---- Acknowledgements -----

We thank Volodymyr Bilotkach, Severin Borenstein, Jim Dana, Diego Escobari, Li Gan, Jim Griffin, Mike Mazzeo, Nancy Rose, Adam Shapiro, and Manuelita Ureta for helpful discussions, and seminar participants at Yale, MIT, the International Industrial Organization Conference, FTC Microeconomics Conference, Tennessee, 2009 AEA Meetings, Chicago Booth, UC Irvine, UC Davis, Baylor, and Carnegie Mellon. Manuel Hernandez provided excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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