A STUDY OF OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND TECHNOLOGY FOR AIRPORTS IN EUROPE AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: A NON-PARAMETRIC METAFRONITER APPROACH

摘要

The assessment of economic and technical efficiency is a useful tool to select the most appropriate technology for airport operations. However, traditional models require that the units being assessed operate with the same technology. To overcome this limitation, the viability of using a non-concave metafrontier approach that is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to calculate the techno-economic efficiency and technological gap ratio (TGRs) with non-homogeneous technologies for airports across countries and the different ownerships in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The previous studies mainly applied DEA to measure operational efficiency of airport. In addition, 13 years panel data from are collected to estimate comparable the efficiency scores for airports across various countries possibly operating under different ownership, and explore the impact of airport privatization on operational efficiency.