TFP growth, change in efficiency, and technological progress in the U. S. airline industry: 1970 to 1981

Paul Bauer ()

No 8804, Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: An overview of the airline industry's early adaptations to deregulation using a best-practice cost function approach; measures cost efficiency and changes in total factor productivity growth for airlines in the 1970s and early 1980s and discusses how these findings relate to individual airline performance.

Keywords: Airlines; Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988

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