Wojciech Augustyniak

PhD

Department of Microeconomics

Poznan University of Economics

Poznan, Poland

Efficiency change in regional airports during market liberalization

E-mail: w.augustyniak@ue.poznan.pl

ABSTRACT. The main purpose of this article is to measure the DEA efficiency scores of 4 Polish airports before and after market liberalization in comparison to the reference group that comprised 11 German airports in order to determine the impact of EU accession on their performance. In May 2004 Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and seven other countries joined the structures of the European. Since that date their airspaces has being covered by the Open Skies agreements which meant deregulation of their air transport markets. Results published in this article suggest that joining the EU had a positive impact on the financial efficiency of airports and had no impact on their technical efficiency.

Received: January, 2014

1st Revision: March, 2014

Accepted: April, 2014

DOI:10.14254/2071-789X.2014/7-1/8

JEL Classification: D24, C61

Keywords: airport efficiency, Data Envelopment Analysis, Poland, Germany.