The rationale for the research
Empirical issues and data sources
1.3.1 Empirical efficiency analysis
1.3.2 An Empirical analysis of Air transport growth
1.3.3 Data sources
Contributions of this research
Policy recommendations
Limitations and guidelines for future research
2. Performance Overview of Ethiopian Airlines and Airports
Status of Ethiopian Airports
Traffic Trends
Growth Trends in Aircraft Types and Numbers
Brief Financial Status of Ethiopian
Trends in Worldwide Networks
Ethiopian’s flights to China
Ethiopian’s flights to African countries
3. Summary of each paper
References
Annexure A
Chapter Two
An Analysis of the Cost Efficiency of Ethiopian Airports
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1 Theoretical literature
2.2 A generalization of the SFA models
2.3 Empirical applications of the models to the airport industry
3. Dataset and Model Specifications
3.1 Data and description of variables
3.2 Input prices of airport services
3.3 Airport services
3.4 Passengers and Freight Cargo
3.5 Airport facilities and services
4. Model Specification and Efficiency Measurement Approaches
5. Analysis and Discussion of the Estimation Results
5.1 Output and inputs price elasticities
5.2 Efficiency of Airports
6. Summary and Conclusions
References
Chapter Three
An Analysis of the Production Efficiency of Ethiopian Airports
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The Aviation Industry in Ethiopia
3. Literature review
3.1 Stochastic frontier functions
3.1.1 General production frontier model
3.1.2 Functional form of the scholastic production frontier
3.1.3 Stochastic production frontier model with panel data
3.2 Applications to the aviation industry
4. Data and Model Specifications
4.1 Dataset and a description of the variables
4.2 Model specification framework
5. Estimation and Discussion of the Results
6. Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendations
References
Chapter Four
Labor Use Efficiency of Ethiopian Airports
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Data and a description of the variables
3.1 Output data’s definitions
3.2 Input data’s definitions
4. The empirical input requirement frontier model
5. Panel data labor use model’s specification and estimation
6. A Discussion of the results
6.1 Fixed-effects model’s estimation
6.2 Model separating Labor use persistent and transitory inefficiency
components
6.3 An Analysis of the results of the MLE estimation model (Model 3)
6.4 Robustness test for the stochastic frontier efficiency models
7. Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendations
References
Chapter Five
Growth Determinants of Ethiopian Air Transport
Abstract
1. Introduction