Air transport performance: current evidences about the efficiency of Italian airports

Juan Brida, Vincenzo Fasone, Pablo Daniel Monterubbianesi and Sandra Zapata-Aguirre

International Journal of Business Performance Management, 2014, vol. 15, issue 4, 351-371

Abstract: This paper analyses the performance of Italian airports. We construct and estimate a data envelopment analysis, under Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (CCR), Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) and superefficiency models, in order to obtain efficiency scores for 14 airports for the period 2009-2011. In addition, we use a Malmquist Index for measuring the evolution of the productivity of individual airports along the time. The results show that Genoa, Rome, Naples, Bergamo and Bologna exhibit the best practices when distributing efficiently their production factor available to face an increase in the demand, keeping this behavior during all the period under study. These airports are efficient in both constant returns to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS), indicating that scale is the prevailing source of efficiency.

Keywords: airports; airport efficiency; Italy; productivity; performance measurements; benchmarking; data envelopment analysis; DEA; super efficiency modelling; Malmquist productivity index; best practice; increased demand; constant returns to scale; CRS; variable returns to scale; VRS; air transport; airline industry. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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