Competing Networks, Spatial and Industrial Concentration in the US Airline Industry

Aisling Reynolds-Feighan

Spatial Economic Analysis, 2007, vol. 2, issue 3, 237-257

Abstract: Abstract The paper uses Gini decomposition analysis to evaluate changes in the spatial distribution and industry shares of total US air traffic, as well as analysing the decomposition components for individual airlines and airports for the period 1990–2002. The paper develops explicit relationships between two of the main decomposition schemes used in the income inequality literature and shows the insights that such analysis may provide for evaluation and examination of air transport networks and traffic distributions. A multi-dimensional Gini and its decomposition are derived using an adjustment method derived from the relationship between the two Gini decomposition schemes.

Keywords: Airlines; Gini decomposition; spatial concentration; hub-and-spoke networks; I32; L11; l93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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