On the Provision of Airport Infrastructure in Germany

Dr. Christoph Wollersheim

doi:10.5771/9783845228211

Summary

Die oftmals kritisierte Subventionierung der deutschen Flughafeninfrastruktur und damit einhergehende Überkapazitäten werden in diesem Buch mit der Theorie des Marktversagens analysiert. Es wird argumentiert, dass zwar der öffentliche Einfluss bei der Bereitstellung der Infrastruktur unter bestimmten Annahmen zu rechtfertigen ist, insbesondere aber vertikale Finanzmittelzuweisungen für die regionalen Überkapazitäten verantwortlich sind und unterbunden werden sollten.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-6308-8
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-2821-1
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Beiträge und Studien des Instituts für Verkehrswissenschaft der Universität Münster
Volume: 2
Language: English
Pages: 280
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 10
List of Figures No access Pages 11 - 12
List of Tables No access Pages 13 - 14
List of Abbreviations No access Pages 15 - 18
1. Starting Point No access Pages 19 - 25
2. Objectives and Structure of the Thesis No access Pages 25 - 26
3. Delimitation No access Pages 26 - 29
1. Cost Structures of Airports No access Pages 30 - 38
2. Revenue Structures of Airports No access Pages 38 - 45
3. 1. Theory No access Pages 45 - 49
  2. Empirical Results No access Pages 49 - 53
1. 1. 1. 1. Share Floatation No access
      2. Trade Sale No access
      3. Concessions with Major Capital Expenditure No access
      4. Project Finance Privatisation No access
      5. Management Contract No access
    2. The Future Role of the State No access
  2. Airport Planning and Approval No access Pages 62 - 62
  3. 1. Definition of Subsidies No access
    2. Definition of State Aid No access
2. German Airport Policy No access Pages 65 - 84
3. 1. Great Britain No access Pages 84 - 91
  2. France No access Pages 91 - 94
  3. Discussion of the Different Airport Policies No access Pages 94 - 98
1. Generally Provided Justifications for State Aid No access Pages 99 - 100
2. 1. Conformity of Goods of General Interest with Market Economical Principals No access Pages 100 - 104
  2. Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance No access Pages 104 - 105
  3. Examination of Airports as Goods of General Interest No access Pages 105 - 106
3. 1. External Costs No access Pages 106 - 111
  2. 1. Option Value No access
    2. Positive Network Externalities No access
    3. 1. Input-Output Analysis No access
        Econometric Analysis No access
        Cost-Benefit Analysis No access
      2. Determination of Variables No access
        Panel Data Analysis No access
        Empirical Findings and Tests No access
        Examination of Smaller Airports No access
        Discussion of the Empirical Results No access
      3. Overview on the Methodology No access
        Application of the CV-Methodology for a Secondary Airport No access
        Results of the CV Approach No access
    4. Conclusions Regarding External Benefits from Airports No access
4. Recapitulative Appraisal of Subsidies and State Aid No access Pages 166 - 172
1. 1. 1. Transaction Costs No access
    2. Transformation Costs No access
    3. Procedure Preference Costs No access
    4. Transaction Specificities No access
  2. Conclusions Regarding the Public Production of Airport Services No access Pages 185 - 186
  3. 1. Public Private Partnerships No access
    2. Subsidisation of Air Traffic No access
    3. Participation from Interregional Spillover Effects No access
  4. Conclusions Regarding the Production of External Benefits No access Pages 191 - 191
2. 1. Advantages of Centralisation No access Pages 191 - 193
  2. 1. Static Advantages No access
    2. Dynamic Advantages No access
    3. Political Economic Advantages No access
  3. 1. Distribution of External Costs No access
    2. 1. Regional Dispersion of Option Value No access
      2. Network Externalities No access
      3. Positive Effects for the Regional Economy No access
    3. 1. Administration Cost No access
      2. Coordination Costs No access
      3. Signalling Costs No access
      4. Mobility Costs No access
  4. 1. Implications from the Principle of Fiscal Equivalency No access
    2. Implications Derived from the Discussion of Organisational Costs No access
    3. Optimal Allocation of Responsibilities No access
Conclusions No access Pages 232 - 236
Bibliography No access Pages 237 - 262
Categorisations of Airports No access Pages 263 - 264
Financial Support to German Airports No access Pages 265 - 271
Planning and Approval Process of “Startbahn West” at Frankfurt Airport No access Pages 272 - 274
Ownership Structure of German Airports No access Pages 275 - 276
Ownership Structure of British Airports No access Pages 277 - 278
Ownership Structure of French Airports No access Pages 279 - 280