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Journal of Economic Geography:

Airports, access and local economic performance: evidence from China

In this article, we study the effect of airports on local economic performance that arises from better access to domestic markets in the context of China?s recent airport network expansion. We measure access through the ...Read more...

CentrePiece article

Airports and economic performance in China

China?s airport construction policy has been successful in boosting manufacturing output, according to research by Stephen Gibbons and Wenjie Wu. Their study also finds that productivity impacts have been greater for pri...Read more...

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper

Airports, Market Access and Local Economic Performance: Evidence from China

In this paper we study the effect of airports on local economic performance that arises from better access to domestic markets, using China?s recent rapid air network expansion. We estimate the effects of the implied cha...Read more...

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper

Homeownership and NIMBYism: A Spatial Analysis of Airport Effects

This study evaluates the cost of aircraft noise in Berlin, Germany, on the background of the home-voter hypothesis, which has received increasing attention in the literature. First, we use exogenous variation in airport ...Read more...