Economic Effects of Airports in Central Europe: A Critical Review of Empirical Studies and Their Methodological Assumptions

Zak, Denise; Getzner, Michael

doi:10.13189/aeb.2014.020206

Cited by 15 publications

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“…The findings from the analysis in this paper demonstrate that the perceptions on the regional benefit of airport development and operation have a close agreement with the empirical evidence in the previous studies [15][16][17][18]. The outcome confirms the effect of airport operation and development on both regional development and economic progress, and the general perception about the positive correlation with airport development and regional economic benefit.…”

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“…In terms of urban employment growth, Marquise J. McGraw (2020) [15] stated that airports increased the employment rate and population in each region by 3.9% and 3.4%, respectively, every decade after the Second World War, between 1950 and 2010, and contributed to regional economic development by up to 1.2%. In addition, studies claiming that the operation of an airport directly leads to positive effects in the regional economy have been continuously carried out, as seen in Blonigen and Cristea (2012) [16], Florida et al, (2012) [17], and Zak and Getzner (2014) [18]. Salewski et al (2018) [19] presented the ripple effect of an airport on a region through five factors, and Hartwig (2000) [20] provided the effect with regards to the improved quality of life and job creation through the revitalization of the regional economy through the airport.…”

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Perceptions on Regional Benefit of Airport Development and Operation

Song

Suh

2022

Applied Sciences

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Airport development and operation has a significant impact on local economy. However, the impact is assessed differently from different perspectives. In this paper, the authors investigated how the public think on the benefit of airport development and operation from a regional perspective. More specifically, the paper focuses on what the main factors are in public perceptions on the regional benefit of airport development and operation. The authors analyzed a survey collected in South Korea using structural equation models. The authors assigned five categories of perception factors and examined these factor relationships regarding the ripple effects caused by airport development and operation on each region. The five factors were “increased use in air transportation”, “increased exchange with other regions”, “regional economic benefit”, “regional development”, and “dis-benefit to the region”. The model was verified with structural equations and path analysis results for each factor. It was revealed that people perceive the increased use in air transportation and the increased exchange with other regions as bringing about the most significant ripple effects, followed by regional development and regional economic benefit in this order, according to the order of path groups. The results of this paper are expected to provide stakeholders’ perspectives and insights when planning airport development and operation.

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Perceptions on Regional Benefit of Airport Development and Operation

Song

Suh

2022

Applied Sciences

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“…An analysis of the existing literature on the subject confirms that air passenger transport and employment (in different industrial sectors) in urban regions are positively linked (Alkaabi & Debbage, 2007; Brueckner, 2003; Button & Taylor, 2000; Goetz, 1992; Green, 2007; Ivy et al, 1995; Liu et al, 2006; Neal, 2012). The reason behind this statement is that having better air transport services implies having better accessibility, which encourages companies to locate in a region and stimulates the expansion of existing businesses (Cooper & Smith, 2005; Zak & Getzner, 2014). This improved accessibility and connectivity appears to contribute to a positive economic performance for the economy as a whole, by improving the overall level of productivity thanks to a greater access to other markets and to better dynamics of movement of workers among regions (Button et al, 1999; Mukkala & Tervo, 2013; Neal, 2012; Perovic, 2013).…”

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Impact of airport policies on regional development. Evidence from the Colombian case

Olariaga

Alonso-Malaver

2022

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Following the global and regional trend, Colombia liberalized the air transport industry in the early 1990s. With this, an uninterrupted (ongoing to date) development of a set of public policies for this sector started, accompanied by various reforms at the institutional level. These transformations took place following the notion that the Colombian State considers air transport as an essential public service that contributes to the national economic and regional development. Within this package of public air transport policies, airport policies have an essential role, through which a large number of airports in the country were privatized (19 to date), which are distributed, almost homogeneously, throughout the Colombian geography. These privately governed airports are located in large, medium, and small cities, and in regions considered remote and isolated. Therefore, this article analyzes the impact of public air transport policies, with a special emphasis on airport policies, on the country’s territorial connectivity and the socioeconomic development of its regions. To analyze the socioeconomic indicators, the methodology of difference‐in‐differences was used, which is a quasi‐experimental econometric and impact evaluation method.

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“…Blonigen and Cristea 16 and Florida et al 17 suggested that airport operations have a significant positive impact on the regional economy. Zak and Getzner 18 found that many studies have reported meaningful positive economic effects of airports in Central Europe. As such, studies on the development or effectiveness of airport cities suggest that aspects of the regional economy play an important role.…”

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Regional economic structure and airport-centric development strategy formulation: The case of South Korea

Chung

Song

2021

Science Progress

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Strategic positioning, in terms of the regional economic structure, is necessary to fully consider regional economic benefit in developing areas surrounding the airport. We propose a novel strategy formulation for an airport surrounding area development that moves the focus away from an approach focused on the airport toward an approach based on regional economic structure. The concept of comparative advantage and SWOT analysis was introduced by utilizing quantitative indices looking at the regional industrial ecosystem to enhance scientific analysis progress from the strategy building prospective. The proportion of inter-industry transactions, the degree of dispersion of inter-industry transactions, and the spill-over characteristics of local industries were developed into indices. Through the case study, we could systematically show that Incheon has both strengths and weaknesses in terms of the current absolute volume of transactions, opportunities in terms of demand factors and spill-over effect, but faces threats with regards to the regional industrial structure. The availability of the methodology was verified and a new concept of the airport economic impact zone has been proposed.

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Economic Effects of Airports in Central Europe: A Critical Review of Empirical Studies and Their Methodological Assumptions

Cited by 15 publications

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Perceptions on Regional Benefit of Airport Development and Operation

Perceptions on Regional Benefit of Airport Development and Operation

Impact of airport policies on regional development. Evidence from the Colombian case

Regional economic structure and airport-centric development strategy formulation: The case of South Korea

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