Expanding airports is a topic which can easily make it to the first page of the national press. But this is highly unlikely as 'bad news' is 'good news' and most often failures and scandals make it to the front page. Berlin airport or the on-going failure to open up a nearly-complete new airport...

We develop a two-stage formulation to estimate seaport performance and to understand the drivers of efficiency, which could potentially include specialization, ownership, competition and tariff regulation. The first-stage non-parametric, slacks-based measure estimates the technical efficiency of...

In dieser Studie äußern wir uns als Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler zu drängenden Fragen der Bremischen Wirtschaftspolitik - unabhängig von Interessengruppen oder politischen Parteien. Wir äußern uns allerdings bewusst in einer politisierten Zeit: Am 10. Mai 2015 wird die...

This paper outlines some first results from a study on the technical efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) of 17 international airports in Germany. The analysis was undertaken with panel data from 1998 - 2002. According to the Malmquist-DEA the performance at nearly every airport...

The heated debate on the regulatory framework for airports has highlighted the importance of creating good institutions for air transport in general. This paper defines the concept of effective regulatory institutions for air transport. It also describes the value chain for air transport and how...

Over the last 25 years, the governance structure of airports has changed in many parts of the world. Today airports are no longer a homogenous group of public utilities, but a heterogeneous group with ownership structures ranging from state-owned to partial and even full privatisation, with...