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Marginal costs estimation and market power of German airports

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  • Hakimov, Rustamdjan
  • Mueller, Juergen

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From a theoretical prospective, marginal costs are one of the main determinants of pricing policy. However, their complexity and to some extend the artificiality of marginal costs makes the concept very unpopular among practitioners, also in the aviation industry. Nevertheless, in this paper we aim to estimate cost functions for German airports and derive marginal costs for different types of aircraft using them. This allows us to make efficiency comparison for aeronautical activities. Moreover, using the results of Morrison (1982), we are also able to estimate the “k” coefficients of the Ramsey-pricing formula and then use it as a proxy for market power of these airports. As the result we obtain two rankings from the sample: the first is the cost efficiency ranking of airports, and the second ranking is with respect to market power.

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  • Hakimov, Rustamdjan & Mueller, Juergen, 2014. "Marginal costs estimation and market power of German airports," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 42-48.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:retrec:v:45:y:2014:i:c:p:42-48
    DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2014.07.006
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    1. Robert Malina, 2005. "Market power and the need for regulation in the German airport market," Working Papers 10, Institute of Transport Economics, University of Muenster, revised Mar 2006.
    2. Link, Heike & Götze, Wolfgang & Himanen, Veli, 2009. "Estimating the marginal costs of airport operation using multivariate time series models with correlated error terms," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pages 41-46.
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    Keywords

    Airport; Marginal costs; Market power;
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    JEL classification:

    • D42 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Monopoly
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • L93 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Air Transportation

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