Japanese-airport benchmarking with the DEA and endogenous-weight TFP methods: Testing the criticism of overinvestment in Japanese regional airports

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 533-546

  Yoshida, Yuichiro ^a   Fujimoto, Hiroyoshi ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b Found for Adv Stud on Intl Dvmt   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airport efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS;

AIRPORT BENCHMARKING; AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION; AIRPORT EFFICIENCY; EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; OVER-INVESTMENT; PUBLIC INVESTMENTS; REGIONAL AIRPORT; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES;

EFFICIENCY;

AIRPORT; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 6444231639     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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