An Input-Output Study of the Impact of Cork Airport on its Catchment Area

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the recently constructed survey based input-output table for Cork and Kerry was used to measure the impact of Cork Airport on its catchment area in 1995. The motivation for the paper is to show that survey based regional input-output models are an invaluable tool in estimating the effect of an industry, such as an airport, on its local economy.