Abstract
The ownership form of Air Navigation Service Providers varies across countries, ranging from state agencies belonging to the Department of Transport, to government-owned corporations, to semi-private firms with for-profit or not-for-profit mandates. This research focusses on the link between the performance of ANSPs and their ownership form. Economic theory suggests that effort to achieve cost efficiency will be higher in the case of public companies with a board of stakeholders composed of airspace users and in the case of private companies with-stakeholders that are also shareholders. A stochastic frontier analysis estimation of the production and cost functions of 37 European air navigation service providers over nine years suggests that the public-private ownership form with stakeholder involvement achieves statistically significantly higher productive and cost efficient en-route levels compared to either a government corporation or a state agency. We also find substantial levels of inefficiency across the European air traffic control market.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1053-1069 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice |
| Volume | 132 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank the editors of this special issue and two anonymous referees for useful comments. This research was undertaken as part of the COMPAIR project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 699249. Nicole Adler would also like to thank the Recanati Foundation for partial funding of this research. The authors would like to thank the participants of the Air Transport Research Society Conference held in Antwerp in July 2017 for their helpful comments. Appendix A
Funding Information:
We thank the editors of this special issue and two anonymous referees for useful comments. This research was undertaken as part of the COMPAIR project. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 699249. Nicole Adler would also like to thank the Recanati Foundation for partial funding of this research. The authors would like to thank the participants of the Air Transport Research Society Conference held in Antwerp in July 2017 for their helpful comments.
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