The econometric estimation of airports' cost function

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 112-127

  Martín, Juan Carlos ^a   Voltes Dorta, Augusto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Airport cost functions; Hedonic outputs; Input prices; Marginal costs; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COST ESTIMATING; COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; ESTIMATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS; AIRPORT TECHNOLOGIES; ESTIMATION METHODOLOGIES; HEDONIC OUTPUTS; INPUT PRICES; MARGINAL COSTS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

AIRPORT; ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COST; ECONOMETRICS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 78149495456     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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