Grandfather rights in the market for airport slots

Gernot Sieg

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2010, vol. 44, issue 1, 29-37

Abstract: Grandfather rights are currently used in the European Union to allocate airport slots. This article shows that airports prefer such a use-it-or-lose-it rule to unconditional property rights. Assuming that there are informational asymmetries between airports and air carriers because air carriers have better information on passenger demand, the use-it-or-lose-it rule increases slot use when demand for air transport is low. Airport profits increase and those of the air carriers, together with social welfare, decrease. The profit-maximizing slot-use ratio is less than one.

Keywords: Airports; Grandfather; rights; Use-it-or-lose-it; rule; Airport; slots (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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