The technical efficiency of US Airlines

Carlos Barros, Qi Bin Liang and Nicolas Peypoch

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2013, vol. 50, issue C, 139-148

Abstract: This paper applies the B-convex model in order to investigate the technical efficiency of a representative sample of US airlines over the period 1998–2010. The results are mixed and reveal that US airlines’ efficiency can be influenced by the size of the airline, mergers and acquisitions, and by time. Policy implications are derived.

Keywords: US airlines; Efficiency; DEA; B-convexity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2013.01.019

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