Economic analysis of airport privatization policy introducing airline networks

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780148
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Oita University (2017); Kagoshima University (2014-2016)
• Principal Investigator: Kawasaki Akio 大分大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (10452723)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 空港民営化 / 航空ネットワーク

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research introduces local airports into previous studies which discuss the problem of hub airport privatization, and examines whether (partial) airport privatization holds in equilibrium. Additionally, this research investigates how a carrier’s network affects the degree of airport privatization. As a result, following results are obtained. When the consumer surplus of passengers traveling to/from domestic local airports is large (small), airport privatization does not hold (holds). When a domestic carrier flies from the domestic hub airport to the foreign local airports, the domestic country decreases the degree of airport privatization but the foreign country increases the degree of airport privatization.

Free Research Field

産業組織論