megaregions and the aviation sector is rather untouched in research. The purpose of this study is to examine the role airports …The megaregion spatial form has grown in prominence in recent years in planning thought, but the relationship between … in the megaregions was compared by density and type of airports, including an examination into airline hubs. The …

aviation airports that serve private business and personal aircraft, not scheduled passenger service. The research also … generated by the airport. IMPLAN calculates the direct impact in 2006 for North Carolina's general aviation airports to be $990 … for the aircraft based at North Carolina's general aviation airports to be approximately $6.0 million. This research …

only rarely been applied in practical competition analysis with respect to airports. This paper builds a bridge between the … analysis of the market power of airports, given the time and data constraints encountered in practice by the regulatory … authorities and other involved parties, and propose a general framework for the analysis of market power of airports. We focus on …

participants respond to those factors. Although airlines are the main actors, the airports are by no means passive, and their … of airport strategies in the next decade and its impact on the distribution of traffic at airports, using a typology of … airports that has been designed for this purpose. It shows in particular that diversification strategies, which are usually …

participants respond to those factors. Although airlines are the main actors, the airports are by no means passive, and their … of airport strategies in the next decade and its impact on the distribution of traffic at airports, using a typology of … airports that has been designed for this purpose. It shows in particular that diversification strategies, which are usually …

ecological spatial model, and this is done in chapter 8. Finally, I wanted to put together the earlier improvements to the CAR … performed better than the usual models, but only when both outcomes shared a strong spatial correlation. The next objective … spatial correlation in the outcomes, as well as accommodating both individual and areal measures of covariates. Using the …

. Finally, in a spatial econometric framework, I test for the presence and magnitude of network spillovers from infrastructure …

description of the structure of the thesis.Chapter 2 provides a literature review of studies that have focused on spatial … analogue of a linear probability can be formulated as a spatial autoregressive Cliff and Ord (1973, 1981)-type model. The sets … of Monte Carlo experiments show that the parameters of the model can be estimated without bias using a spatial 2SLS …

simulated spatial labor market model is used to explore the economic effects of various stages of regional integration …