The completion of the so-called 'third package' in the liberalization of European aviation has changed the environment in which airports operate considerably. The continued growth of air traffic has led to a public debate in many Western countries about the expansion of airport capacity in the...

Several of the authors question the efficacy of copyright, which is increasingly regarded as benefiting multinational organisations rather than individual authors and performers. Others are less critical of copyright per se, but question its ability to meet the new challenges of a digital era....

The deregulation of US aviation has led to drastic changes in route structures and to widespread adoption of the hub-and-spoke system. This paper investigates whether deregulation in the European Union has led to a similar pattern. The study uses time schedule data for all airports in the...

The deregulation of US domestic passenger aviation in 1978 resulted in the reconfiguration of airline networks into radial route systems, spatially concentrated around a small number of central airports or ‘hubs’. This paper investigates whether a similar spatial concentration trend...