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Volume 7, Issue 2
1 February 1983
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Studies in Economic Analysis
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Review Article| February 01 1983

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ECONOMIES OF SCOPE: THE CASE OF AIR CARRIERS

JAMES A. LEGGETTE, III;
JAMES A. LEGGETTE, III
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of South Carolina
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BRENDA KILLINGSWORTH
BRENDA KILLINGSWORTH
Ph.D. Candidate in Management Information Systems at the University of South Carolina
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-7615
Print ISSN: 0198-8263
© MCB UP Limited
1983
Studies in Economic Analysis (1983) 7 (2): 27–33.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028637

Recently, theoretical economics has recognized something which the business person has known for a long time, that is “the world of single product firms with U‐shaped average cost curves is simply not the world of reality.” Key to this newly emerging multiproduct framework is the concept of economies of scope.

© MCB UP Limited
1983
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