The Impact of Code Share Agreements to the Transient Profile Airline Fares in Tanzania--Beijing Airports.

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ABSTRACT

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CHAPTER Ⅰ：INTRODUCTION

1．1 The Background to Problem

1．2 Motivation

1．3 Research Problem(RP)

1．4 Research Question(RQ)

1．5 Research Gaps

1．6 Objectives of the Study

1．7 Content and Demarcation of the research

CHAPTER Ⅱ：LITERATURE REVIEW

2．1．Background and History of Code sharing agreement

2．2 Types of code sharing agreements

2．2．1 International Alliances code sharing agreement

2．2．2 Domestic agreements

2．2．3 Conclusions

2．3 Definition and basic terms of code-sharing agreements

2．3．1 Airline Alliance

2．3．2“Open Skies’’ and bilateral agreements

2．3．3 Anti trust immunity

2．3．4 Competition Authorities

2．3．5 Sherman Act

2．4 Code-sharing in parallel networks

2．5 Code-sharing in complementary networks

2．6 Block seats arrangement

2．7 Price discrimination and code-sharing

2．8 Double marginalization

2．9 Motivation for code-sharing

2．9．1 Competition Impact of Airline Code-Share Agreements

2．9．2 Basic provisions of code-share agreements

2．10 Importance of Code sharing Agreement in Tanzania

2．11 Effects of code sharing

2．12 Basic provisions of code-share agreements

2．13 Code-share Agreements practices

CHAPTER Ⅲ：METHODOLOGY

3．1 Data Type and Sources analysis

3．1．1 Econometric analysis and Endogeneity

3．2 Pricing equation with code-share

3．3 Variables Descriptions and definitions

3．3 Descriptive analysis

3．4 Summary Statistics

3．5 Endogeneity and bias

3．6 Correlation matrix

CHAPTER Ⅳ：ESTIMATION AND DISCUSSION OF EMPIRICAL RESULTS

4．1 To robust check on Results：Ordinary Least Square(OLS)

4．1．1Extensive Economies of scale

4．1．2The implicit cost of capacity

4．1．3The economies of density

4．2 To robust check on Results：Fixed effect versus random effects (FE and RE)

4．3 To robust check on：Two stage least square(2SLS)

4．4 Discussion of empirical results

CHAPTER Ⅴ：CONSLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5．1 Conclusion

5．2 Recommendations

5．1．1 Frequent Flier

5．1．2 Alliances

5．1．3 Interline

5．2 Research Limitations

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