Alberto Nastasi

TL;DR: This paper proposes a self-contained reference for both policy makers and scholars who want to address the problem of efficiency and effectiveness of Local Public Transport (LPT) in a sound empirical way, framing economic efficiency studies into a transport planning perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of competition on technical efficiency of Italian airports was analyzed by applying a novel conditional nonparametric frontier analysis for the first time to the airport industry, finding that competition affects mostly the frontier of best performers, whilst airports that are lagging behind are less influenced.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared family and non-family small firms in their approach to green innovation, and found that family firms differ from nonfamily firms in three key areas: firm's motivations, most relevant pressures, and green innovation view.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an interpretive analysis of vertical relations between airports and carriers, while assessing the way in which deregulation of the airline market and the privatization of airports have created incentives for airport-airline interaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate contracts between airports and airlines, in the context of two competing facilities and three types of agreements, and develop a multistage game where each airport and its dominant airline decide whether to enter into a contract and which one to engage in.