JAPANESE-AIRPORT BENCHMARKING WITH THE DEA AND ENDOGENOUS-WEIGHT TFP METHODS: TESTING THE CRITICISM OF OVERINVESTMENT IN JAPANESE REGIONAL AIRPORTS
JAPANESE-AIRPORT BENCHMARKING WITH THE DEA AND ENDOGENOUS-WEIGHT TFP METHODS: TESTING THE CRITICISM OF OVERINVESTMENT IN JAPANESE REGIONAL AIRPORTS
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DOI：
10.1016/j.tre.2004.08.003
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发表时间：
2004-11
影响因子：
10.6
通讯作者：
Y. Yoshida;H. Fujimoto
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作者：
Y. Yoshida;H. Fujimoto
近几十年来，随着日本及周边东亚国家经济的快速增长，沿着航空需求的不断增加，日本政府从20世纪50年代开始大力推进机场建设。然而，近年来经济背景的变化使公共投资，特别是交通基础设施投资效率低下的问题受到了批评。在这种批评中，有人认为，一些小型地区机场确实存在投资过度的问题。因此，本文试图通过对日本机场效率的统计和比较分析来验证这种批评的有效性。为此，本文采用了两种不同的方法，即数据拟合分析和内生权重全要素生产率方法。这些方法的结果一致表明，日本大陆地区机场的效率较低，90年代以后建设的机场效率相对较低。
As aviation demand increased constantly along with the rapid economic growth in Japan and surrounding East Asian countries over the last several decades, Japanese government promoted airport construction since 1950s. However, the recent change in the economic background has made rise to a criticism toward the inefficient public investment, especially the transportation infrastructure. In this criticism, it has been argued that some of the small regional airports are indeed suffering the issue of overinvestment. Thus this paper attempts to verify the validity of such criticism by statistically measuring the efficiency of Japanese airports and conducting comparative analysis. For this objective, the paper employs two distinct methods namely data-envelopment analysis and endogenous-weight TFP methods. The results from these methods consistently indicates that the efficiency of regional airports in mainland Japan are lower than others, and that those airports constructed in the 1990s are relatively inefficient.