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E uropean World Cities and the Spatial Polarisation of Air Transport Liberalisation Benefits
Author(s) -
RamosPérez David,
SánchezHernández José Luis
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12027
Subject(s) - liberalization , scope (computer science) , competition (biology) , air transport , economic geography , business , industrial organization , international economics , economics , market economy , transport engineering , computer science , engineering , biology , ecology , programming language
Research about the consequences of air transport liberalisation in the E uropean U nion is already substantial in amount and scope. Nevertheless, spatial implications of this liberalisation have not been fully addressed yet. By analysing information from the OAG database, this paper measures the geographic concentration of air routes and seating offers supplied under competition conditions among E uropean airports. Our analysis demonstrates that competition is mainly restricted to E uropean World Cities, the ones which concentrate high‐rank functions in the capitalist world‐economy.