Productivity growth of Taiwan's major domestic airports in the presence of aircraft noise

Ming-Miin Yu, Shih-Hsun Hsu, Ching-Cheng Chang and Duu-Hwa Lee

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2008, vol. 44, issue 3, 543-554

Abstract: This study seeks to explain the productivity growth of Taiwan's airport sector using a panel data set of 4 airports covering the period from 1995 to 1999. The Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to accommodate the presence of aircraft noise with the use of the directional output distance function. A window approach is also employed to provide a smoothed-surface frontier. It is found that the annual productivity growth of Taiwan's airports is as high as 8.0% over this period and ignoring the reduction in undesirable outputs in traditional productivity analysis may seriously bias such upward growth.

Keywords: Airport; Directional; distance; function; Malmquist-Luenberger; productivity; index; Aircraft; noise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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