This book offers new insights into the theory and practice of economic airport regulation. In light of recent … developments in aviation markets and policy, and the debate on airport regulation and benchmarking, it offers case studies on … America. This book is divided into three parts: Part I provides the theoretical background for the study of airport regulation …

Conventional economic models in airport regulation assume, that airports have considerable market power and may exploit … duopsony on the outcome of several regulatory options. Our results show, that in such cases the binding conditions for airport … charges may change and, hence, optimal airport regulation should take into account also the degree of mono- or oligopsony …