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 … airports that have been closed for security reasons. As such, this is the first study to examine service quality during … irregular operations. Our results indicate that while outcomes of flights scheduled during airport closures are difficult to …

find substantial effects of bankruptcy on flights offered or destinations served at large and small airports, but do find … an impact at medium sized airports. We estimate, however, that service changes due to bankruptcy are not large in … comparison to typical quarter-to-quarter fluctuations in service that occur at airports in the absence of carrier bankruptcies …

)--matter? We explore these questions in the context of global airports, which like other infrastructure assets have been privatized … 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 …