A busy airport's closure has large effects on noise, real estate markets, and neighborhood demographics. Using a unique … dataset, we examine the effects of closing Denver's Stapleton Airport on nearby housing markets. We find evidence of immediate … announcement and closing. However, after the airport closure, more higher-income and fewer black households moved in, and …

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, repeated airport closures due to potential security breaches have … irregular operations. Our results indicate that while outcomes of flights scheduled during airport closures are difficult to …, seating capacity and shutdown severity, significantly predict outcomes of flights scheduled after airports reopen. Given the …

airport performance along a rich array of dimensions such as passengers per flight, total passengers, number of routes, number … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …. These effects are largest when there is a competing airport nearby. Finally, we show that outright ownership rather than …