Regional Development and Airport Productivity in China
Abstract
This chapter studies the technical efficiencies of Chinese airports by using a meta-frontier production function model which accounts for airports in different regions accessing different technologies. Our empirical results show that the technical efficiency scores of airports and provincial output in the coastal region are higher than their counterparts in the inland region. However, the technical efficiency scores of airports and provincial output in inland region are steadily increasing while the counterparts of airports and provincial output in coastal region are slowly declining. In addition, our analysis of provincial efficiency changes shows that airport productivity has a positive and statistically significant effect on the technical changes of provincial output. Our results partially confirm the success of the government policy of promoting airport construction and development in the western inland region.
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank an anonymous referee for his/her comments and gratefully acknowledge the research support of the Aviation Policy and Research Center and the Li and Fung Center for Supply Chain Management and Logistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Valuable comments from Andrew Chi-Lok Yuen and excellent research assistance provided by Pui-Hang Wong and Ka-Yan Chan are gratefully acknowledged.
Citation
Chow, C.K.W., Fung, M.K.Y. and Law, J.S. (2016), "Regional Development and Airport Productivity in China", Airline Efficiency (Advances in Airline Economics, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 283-316. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2212-160920160000005011
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