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Airports and economic performance in China

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  • Stephen Gibbons
  • Wenjie Wu

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China's airport construction policy has been successful in boosting manufacturing output, according to research by Stephen Gibbons and Wenjie Wu. Their study also finds that productivity impacts have been greater for private firms in areas with relatively high population and low educational achievement. The researchers address the question of whether opening new airports and expanding airport capacity stimulate economic growth, particularly in developing countries. The evidence they find on the positive impact of airport infrastructure in China suggests that reduced travel times and improved domestic market access help to boost industrial productivity.

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  • Stephen Gibbons & Wenjie Wu, 2017. "Airports and economic performance in China," CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance 509, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
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    1. Laila AitBihiOuali & Jose M. Carbo & Daniel J. Graham, 2020. "Do changes in air transportation affect productivity? A cross‐country panel approach," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(3), pages 493-505, June.
    2. Stephen Gibbons & Stephan Heblich & Ted Pinchbeck, 2018. "The spatial impacts of a massive rail disinvestment program: the Beeching axe," CEP Discussion Papers dp1563, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    3. Bottasso, Anna & Conti, Maurizio & Vannoni, Davide, 2019. "Scale and (quasi) scope economies in airport technology. An application to UK airports," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 150-164.
    4. Xingjian Liu, 2020. "Assessing airport ground access by public transport in Chinese cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(2), pages 267-285, February.
    5. Suchi Kapoor Malhotra & Howard White & Nina Ashley O. Dela Cruz & Ashrita Saran & John Eyers & Denny John & Ella Beveridge & Nina Blöndal, 2021. "Studies of the effectiveness of transport sector interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 17(4), December.
    6. Provenzano, Sandro, 2020. "Isolated and Poor: the cost of remoteness from the capital city," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 105688, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    7. Carbo, Jose M. & Graham, Daniel J., 2020. "Quantifying the impacts of air transportation on economic productivity: a quasi-experimental causal analysis," Economics of Transportation, Elsevier, vol. 24(C).
    8. Conti, Maurizio & Ferrara, Antonella Rita & Ferraresi, Massimiliano, 2019. "Did the EU Airport Charges Directive lead to lower aeronautical charges? Empirical evidence from a diff-in-diff research design," Economics of Transportation, Elsevier, vol. 17(C), pages 24-39.

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    Keywords

    airports; infrastructure; productivity; China;
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    JEL classification:

    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • O21 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Planning Models; Planning Policy
    • P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
    • R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise

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