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Airport charges, economic growth, and cost recovery

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  • Zhang, Anming
  • Zhang, Yimin

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This paper shows that "strict" financial break-even for airports may not be socially desirable. To maximize social welfare, airports should be allowed to take losses or make profits at different times while achieving break-even only in the long run. In particular, with economies growing over time, socially optimal pricing for a new airport can involve deficit in its early years and surplus in its later years. This result has practical policy implications for the newly-built or expanded airports especially in the Asia-Pacific region.

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  • Zhang, Anming & Zhang, Yimin, 2001. "Airport charges, economic growth, and cost recovery," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 25-33, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transe:v:37:y:2001:i:1:p:25-33
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