The New Institutions of Transatlantic Aviation


Autoria(s): Karagiannis, Yannis; Heritier, Adrienne
Contribuinte(s)

Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

Data(s)

01/11/2010

Resumo

This article focuses on the institutions of transatlantic aviation since 1945, and aims at extracting from this historical process topical policy implications. Using the methodology of an analytic narrative, we describe and explain the creation of the international cartel institutions in the 1940s, their operation throughout the 1950s and 60s, their increasing vulnerability in the 1970s, and then the progressive liberalization of the whole system. Our analytic narrative has a natural end, marked by the signing of an Open Skies Agreement between the US and the EU in 2007. We place particular explanatory power on (a) the progressive liberalization of the US domestic market, and (b) the active role of the European Commission in Europe. More specifically, we explain these developments using two frameworks. First, a “political limit pricing” model, which seemed promising, then failed, and then seemed promising again because it failed. Second, a strategic bargaining model inspired by Susanne Schmidt’s analysis of how the European Commission uses the threat of infringement proceedings to force member governments into line and obtain the sole negotiating power in transatlantic aviation.

Formato

20 pp.

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Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/2072/96135

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

Relação

IBEI Working Papers;2010/32

Direitos

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Palavras-Chave #Lliure comerç #Aviació #Aviació comercial #Aviació comercial -- Estats Units d'Amèrica #Aviació comercial -- Europa #Espai aeri (Dret internacional) #Europa -- Política
Tipo

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