. This fact attracts an increasing scientific and practical interest to analysis of airport efficiency and its determinants … these two areas – airport efficiency and spatial competition among airports. We analysed modern approaches to airport … attention to empirical researches of spatial competition as a factor affecting airport efficiency. Despite the fact of a well …

on technical efficiency of 28 Italian airports during the period 2000–2006. We employ two different DEA models: physical … business and allows us to evaluate the impact of commercial activities on overall airport efficiency. The main results are: i …) the liberalization of ground handling services has produced an increase of efficiency in airside and landside activities …

, efficiency and technological change, have been carried out. All the airports have been characterized by technological regress and … only a minority of airports experienced an increase in productivity lead by the improvement of efficiency. …

of dissimilarities among the 14 Italians airports. In this framework comparing the efficiency could be troublesome and …, factorial and cluster analysis, in order to reduces dissimilarities and improve the results of the efficiency measures. The two …

This research is devoted to analysis of efficiency estimation in presence of spatial relationships and spatial …

This study deals with estimation of European airports' efficiency values and their interrelation with a level of … construction of a production frontier for a sample of airports and estimation of individual airports' efficiency values as …

In this paper we study the relationship between airport efficiency and two factors: an airport’s centrality in the EU … design and compute our own measures of airport centrality and competition. The results show that efficiency is positively … question. The intensity of competition between airports also has a positive effect on efficiency. Our analysis suggests that …

This study examines the technical efficiency of schools in Australia and its determinants using NAPLAN test results of … region, state and territory in which the school is located. We estimate that the average technical efficiency score of … target for schools in the sample to reach the efficiency frontier is 100 NAPLAN points. Our results suggest that eliminating …

The aim of this work is to study the efficiency of firms operating in Calabria, a small and economically … manufacturing firms which are observed over the 1998-2006 period. Results show that the efficiency score is, on average, about 60 …%. A declining trend is observed over the last three-year period, 2004-2006. Moreover, firm efficiency increases with firm …