This paper classifies and compares eight different connectivity models employed in air transport literature and applies them to European airports. Traditional size-based measures tend to underestimate the accessibility of small airports and overestimate the centrality of large airports. Small...

The objective of this work is to evaluate the accessibility of European municipalities by ground and air transportation. We compute the quickest paths between any origin municipality and any destination municipality separated by more than 500 km. The total travel time includes three components:...

The object of this work is to isolate and to evaluate the role played by aging in the annual cost variation. The aim is to strength the congruence between central health policy concern and the understanding of the annual cost variation at Local Health Unit level. The sample regards...

This paper introduces a general model to analyze the effects of regulation on company risk. In particular, we consider two determinants of systematic risk: the company’s overall risk and the correlation between the regulated company’s value and the market. Theoretical findings indicate that...

The practice of dynamic pricing, so typical of low cost carriers, is generally regarded as a form of price discrimination between "leisure" and "business" travellers on the single flight or on the single route. Across different routes, however, things may go differently. If price increases in...

This study analyzes easyJet’s fare response to new entry. Traditionally, this stream of literature has focused on the reactions of network carriers to competition from low–cost carriers. As low–cost services spread, however, the number of low–cost incumbents is rising. This paper aims to...

The objective of this work is to analyze the cases of de-hubbing during period 1997-2009 in the world-wide air transport network. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to study de-hubbing in a systematic way. In order to identify those cases, this paper firstly addresses the...

This paper is meant to provide an insight into the roles and characteristics of the different typologies of airports by detailing a functional framework of European airports through the analysis of their distinctive features and interconnecting network. The first part of the work will focus on...