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Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, repeated airport closures due to potential security breaches have … irregular operations. Our results indicate that while outcomes of flights scheduled during airport closures are difficult to … likelihood of continued security-related airport closings, understanding the factors that determine schedule recovery is …
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The airline industry's current financial crisis has raised concerns over the ramifications of airline bankruptcies for air service and the economy. Such bankruptcies, however, nearly always occur when demand is weak, and, thus, when even healthy airlines are inclined to reduce flights. Moreover,...
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Decisions on expanding airport capacity are often controversial. Environmental impacts mean airport planning decisions … account for the risks entailed by these dynamics. This report reviews the state of the art in forecasting airport demand. It …
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We present and describe a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and outflows of ten categories of assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building on the data first presented in Martin Schindler (2009), and other datasets based on the analysis of the IMF's...
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. The first part of the paper focuses on sources of market power for airports and on policy responses. When an airport is …
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The unprecedented growth of data and its ubiquity in our daily lives signal that the digital revolution is transforming the world. But despite this growth, much of the value of data remains untapped, waiting to be realized. Data collected for one particular purpose has the potential to generate...
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One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
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