Service Quality and Competition in the U.S. Down-hill Ski Industry

James G. Mulligan ()
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James G. Mulligan: Department of Economics,University of Delaware

No 09-05, Working Papers from University of Delaware, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper illustrates the importance of the role of land constraints in a model explaining the effect of real income and transportation cost on long-run lift-ticket prices and lift capacity in a competitive two-sector ski industry. The model also explains large endogenous increases in lift capacity and real prices over time in response to an increase in real skier income despite a static number of skier-days per year. This approach, thus, has points in common with work by Shaked and Sutton (1986 and 1987), Sutton (1991 and 1998) on endogenous vertical differentiation and persistent market concentration.

Keywords: skiing; service quality; capacity; pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009

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