Civil aircraft procurement and colonial ties: Evidence on the market for jetliners, 1952-89

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-584300
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.58430

Jopp, Tobias A. ; Spoerer, Mark

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Abstract

We investigate the extent to which (quasi-)colonial ties played a role in the procurement of jet aircraft by airlines in the Global South. Because we do not have access to archival data on the sensitive issue of aircraft procurement, we take an indirect empirical approach. Our investigation is based on a dataset including all Western jet aircraft delivered between 1952 and 1989. We ask if, to ...