Competition and Government Intervention in the Airline Industry.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER/Universities Research Conference on "Competition and Government Intervention in the Airline Industry" took place in Cambridge on May 15. NBER Research Associates Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley, and Dennis Carlton, University of Chicago, organized the conference and chose these papers for discussion:

* Silke J. Forbes, University of California, San Diego, and Mara Lederman, University of Toronto, "Does Vertical Integration Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from the Airline Industry"

* Steven L. Puller, Texas A&M University and NBER; and Anirban Sengupta and Steven N. Wiggins, Texas A&M University, "Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing and Price Dispersion in the Airline Industry"

* James D. Dana, Jr., Northeastern University, and Eugene Orlov, Compass...