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Discriminatory Pricing in the Airline Industry
Discriminatory Pricing in the Airline Industry
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103054
- ISBN
- 9798315713814
- DDC
- 385
- 서명/저자
- Discriminatory Pricing in the Airline Industry
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 128 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Williams, Jonathan W.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약My dissertation consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, we develop a model to study the trade-offs associated with introducing re-allocative mechanisms into dynamic-pricing environments with heterogeneous goods and strategic consumers. Our focus is on airlines that sell seats in vertically-differentiated cabins and provide upgrade opportunities after an initial purchase via auctions and fixed-price sales. If consumers anticipate opportunities for an improved reallocation and reduce outright purchases of premium seats, the screening intention of dynamically-set prices can be undermined to create circumstances with a greater probability of upgrades and an ambiguous impact on profits. To study ways to adapt these mechanisms to better complement dynamic-pricing practices, we estimate the model's structural parameters using proprietary data from an airline that includes the price for each itinerary, daily cabin-specific seat inventories for each flight, bids and purchases of upgrades, and information on visits and purchases on the airlines' website. We find that the mechanisms, as implemented, transfer a modest amount of surplus from the airline to consumers while often increasing profits. We conclude by analyzing the aspects of the demand process that lead to consumer surplus and profits increasing. In the second, we conduct a descriptive analysis of consumer search and purchase behavior in response to airline revenue-management practices using data from a major carrier's website and Google Flights. We first describe patterns in search timing, purchase decisions, and paid fares and validate assumptions made in economic models of airlines. We then identify factors driving search timing, finding that single adults with loyalty status, especially booking one-way nonstop itineraries, tend to search closer to departure. Next, we show that competitors' prices and changing customer composition explain rising conversion probabilities as departure nears. Finally, we reveal how search and booking patterns affect prices paid. Late-arriving travelers, particularly single adults with loyalty status, pay substantially more, consistent with the airline's pricing strategies that segment more inelastic customers. Overall, our findings underscore how revenue-management, competitor fares, and consumer characteristics jointly shape online search and purchase behavior.
- 일반주제명
- Transportation
- 키워드
- Airline industry
- 키워드
- Auctions
- 키워드
- Dynamic pricing
- 키워드
- Upgrades
- 기타저자
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■653 ▼aDynamic pricing
■653 ▼aPrice discrimination
■653 ▼aUpgrades
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■71020▼aThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill▼bEconomics.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17356881▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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