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Africa's Latent Assets
Henn, Soeren J.; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
navigating cultural and linguistic diversity sets Africans up for success in a globalized world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496157
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The Cultural Divide
Desmet, Klaus - 2018
This paper conducts a systematic quantitative study of cultural convergence and divergence in the United States over … time. Using the General Social Survey (1972-2016), we assess whether cultural values have grown more or less heterogeneous … between-group heterogeneity is extremely small: the United States is very pluralistic in terms of cultural attitudes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453089
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Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?
Alesina, Alberto - 2017
national and subnational business cycles since 1980, this was not accompanied by cultural nor institutional convergence. Such …Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity … heterogeneity within member states themselves, or in well functioning federations such as the US, cultural diversity across EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455356
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto - 2013
, especially when the latter come from richer countries at intermediate levels of cultural proximity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459966
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An Economic Study of U.S. Aircraft Hijacking, 1960-1976
Landes, William M. - 1977
This study attempts to explain the general pattern of aircraft hijacking in the U.S. between 1361 and 1976, the reasons for the dramatic reduction in hijackings after 1972, and the costs and benefits of regulation instituted in 1973 that required mandatory preboarding searches of all passengers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478925
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On the Persistent Financial Losses of U.S. Airlines : A Preliminary Exploration
Borenstein, Severin - 2011
U.S. airlines have lost nearly $60 billion (2009 dollars) in domestic markets since deregulation, most of it in the last decade. More than 30 years after domestic airline markets were deregulated, the dismal financial record is a puzzle that challenges the economics of deregulation. I examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461914
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Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry
Puller, Steven L. - 2009
This paper investigates why passengers pay substantially different fares for travel on the same airline between the same two airports. We investigate questions that are fundamentally different from those in the existing literature on airline price dispersion. We use a unique new dataset to test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463094
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Valuing a Homeland Security Policy : Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles
Smith, V. Kerry - 2008
This paper reports estimates for the ex ante tradeoffs for three specific homeland security policies that all address a terrorist attack on commercial aircraft with shoulder mounted missiles. Our analysis focuses on the willingness to pay for anti-missile laser jamming countermeasures mounted on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464323
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How Airline Markets Work...Or Do They? Regulatory Reform in the Airline Industry
Borenstein, Severin - 2007
Following a brief review of the U.S. domestic airline industry under regulation (1938-1978), we study the changes that have occurred in pricing, service, and competition in the 28 years since deregulation. We then examine some of the major public policy issues facing the industry: (a) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465197
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Airline Schedule Recovery after Airport Closures : Empirical Evidence Since September 11th
Rupp, Nicholas G. - 2003
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, repeated airport closures due to potential security breaches have imposed substantial costs on travelers, airlines, and government agencies in terms of flight delays and cancellations. Using data from the year following September 11th, this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468954