Kommission, ebensolche Subventionen ab dem Jahr 2024 zu verbieten, stellt eine existenzielle Bedrohung einiger Flughäfen dar …. Befürworter sehen den engen Fokus auf die direkten Verluste der Flughäfen als ungeeignet und führen positive Spillover-Effekte der … Flughäfen an, die das Wachstum umliegender Regionen unterstützen. Empirische Analysen dazu vernachlässigen allerdings häufig die …

We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a … military air base into a regional commercial airport in the German state of Bavaria. The new airport opened in 2007 and … new commercial airport increased tourism in the Allgäu region over the period 2008-2016. The positive effect is especially …

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 …