Efficiency and Growth of Ethiopian Air Transport Industry

ISBN-13: 9789811934346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Tsegay Kaleab Atsbaha

Opis

This book evaluates the efficiency and growth of the  Ethiopian air transport sector through careful analysis.  It provides essential research input for air transport industry practitioners in planning and resource management as well as for academics of advanced efficiency analysis who need to work and study in airports and the airline industry. 

 

The book analyzes the theoretical and practical implications of air transport growth determinants, airports' cost and production efficiency, including labor use efficiency by taking their respective determinant factors. The findings and policy implications of each research work provide important inputs for government policymakers and air transport planners to consider the causality of economic growth versus airlines growth and other determinants, to take lessons on the proper resource allocation in the application of airport cost and production efficiency,  human capital, investment cost, price of capital, and labor inputs during the development and expansion of airports and airlines. 

 

This book is the first of its kind on the  Ethiopian air transport industry and serves as a much-needed reference for the African air transport industry as well as other developing countries in terms of airport costs, production, labor use efficiency and airline growth perspectives.  

Spis treści

1.  Introduction 

  Background 

  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 

O autorze

Tsegay Kaleab is a Ph.D. graduate in economics of a collaborative program between Addis Ababa University and Jonkoping International Business School. He has ample work experience of over thirty  years  in  different  government  organs  including  multiple  managerial  positions.  Particularly,  he has rich experience  and  practical  knowledge  of  basic  requirements  for  airport  establishment,  and  maintenance,  the logistics of airlines services, air transport passenger demand and infrastructures as well as customer handling standard, safety and security standards, and ICAO protocols.