A Benchmarking Analysis of the Brazilian Airport Infrastructure An Application of the Expected Minimum Input Frontier. (1st May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Oliveira-Neto, Francisco; Pontes, Paulo; Wichmann, Bruno
• Is Part Of: Journal of transport economics and policy. Volume 48:Number 2(2014:May)
• Page Start: 297
• Page End: 313
• Publication Date: 2014-05-01
• Subjects: Transportation -- Periodicals; 388.05
• DOI: NO_DOI
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-5951

Abstract

This paper assesses the technical efficiency (TE) of the infrastructure of sixty-three major airports in Brazil. We use the order-m approach in which airports are benchmarked against an expected minimum input frontier. Despite being a non-parametric estimator, the order-m is robust to noise in the data, outliers, and extreme values. In addition, the approach is able to rank airports successfully even in a small sample, a characteristic unusual for traditional non-parametric estimators. We find that international airports are more efficient than domestic ones. We also find evidence that order-m TE estimation of domestic and international airports must be done separately.