The Economic Regulation of Airports : Recent Developments in Australasia, North America and Europe (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction and Overview. Australasia: Replacing regulation: airport price monitoring in Australia, Peter Forsyth; A shift towards regulation? The case of New Zealand, Peter McKenzie-Williams. North America: Airport pricing, financing and policy: report to National Transportation Act Review Committee, David W. Gillen and William Morrison; The regulation of US airports, Anne Graham. Europe: Calculating the short-run marginal infrastructure costs of runway use: an application to Dublin Airport, Oliver Hogan and David Starkie; Privatization and regulation of Amsterdam Airport, Jaap De Wit; Airport regulation in the UK, Nienke Hendriks and Doug Andrew; UK - regulation from the perspective of BAA plc, Mike Toms; New approaches in airline/airport relations - the charges framework of Frankfurt Airport, Michael Klenk; Privatization in Austria: some theoretical reasons and first results about the privatization proceeds in general and of Vienna Airport, Friedrich Schneider; Regulation in times of crisis: experiences with a public-private price cap contract at Hamburg Airport, Thomas Immelmann; Capacity utilization, investment and regulatory reform of German airports, Hans-Martin Niemeier. Towards Institutional Reforms: Optimal economic regulation: a short survey of developments from the 1970s to the 1990s, Cathal Guiomard; Airport privatization and regulation - getting the institutions right, Hartmut Wolf; On the institutional setting of ex-post regulation in regulated industries, Bernhard Duijm.