Assesing the Impact of Competition on the Efficiency of Italian Airports

Tiziana D'Alfonso (), Cinzia Daraio () and Alberto Nastasi ()
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Tiziana D'Alfonso: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Cinzia Daraio: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Alberto Nastasi: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

No 2013-01, DIAG Technical Reports from Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Abstract: This paper provides new empirical evidence on the efficiency of Italian airports. Analysing data on 2010 trough conditional e?ciency measures, we find that competition affects mostly the frontier of best performers, whilst airports that are lagging behind are less influenced by it. By applying a novel two stage approach, we show that competition has an inverse U-shape impact. Finally, the bi-modal shape of the distribution of pure efficiency indicates the existence of two differently managed groups of airports.

Keywords: Italian airports; competition; DEA; conditional efficiency; two stage analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2013-01
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