In the traditional analysis of airports, non-aeronautical service is not the main focus. Given its growing importance, recent airport literature has investigated the impact of non-aeronautical service comprehensively. The main purpose of this article is, by referring to recent literature, to...

This paper reviews the development of China's air transport policy and examines the determinants of Chinese city-pair air passenger flows using a gravity model approach accounting for the effects of multilateral resistance. We find enormous positive impacts of both the continuing liberalisation...

Most airports operate under public ownership, while some are privatized and economically regulated. Only a few airports are privately owned and experience little or no ex-ante regulation of airport charges. On the other hand, airports nowadays earn as much revenue from transport-related...

Using a general-equilibrium model that includes consumers, airlines, and an airport with both aeronautical service and non-aeronautical service, this paper investigates the airport's decisions on its aeronautical charge and capacity, as well as the size of its non-aeronautical service. In...

This paper examines forms of airport regulation and privatization, taking into account of behavior of public administration and both the aeronautical and non-aeronautical services. We find that with higher costs associated with public operations, a public airport cannot be identified as a...

This paper analyzes single-till and dual-till regulations in terms of social welfare. We clarify two conditions to determine which regulation yields a higher welfare. The first condition is whether the solutions under welfare maximization yield positive or negative regulatory profits. The second...

The much-studied relationship between domestic rivalry and export performance consists of those supporting a national-champion rationale, and those supporting a rivalry rationale. While the empirical literature generally supports the positive effects of domestic rivalry, the national-champion...

Many firms offer “core” and “side” goods in the sense that side-good consumption is conditional on core-good consumption. Airports are a common example where the supply of runway and terminal capacity is the core good and the supply of various concession services (for example, car rental...

This paper analyzes third-degree price discrimination of a monopoly airline in the presence of congestion externality when all markets are served. The model features the business-passenger and leisure-passenger markets where business passengers exhibit a higher time valuation, and a less...

This paper examines the determinants of airport aeronautical charges by employing a unique panel dataset covering sixty-one European airports over an eighteen-year period. We are able to extend the literature on the role of airports as an essential element in transport infrastructure by offering...