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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Airline efficiency |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. |
| Pages | 283-316 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781785609404 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
Funding
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.
Keywords
- Meta-frontier
- regional disparity and development
- technical efficiency