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How Airline Markets Work...Or Do They? Regulatory Reform in the Airline Industry

Borenstein, Severin - 2007

) possible market power of dominant airlines, and (c) congestion and investment shortfall in the airport and air traffic …

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Decarbonizing Aviation : Cash-for-Clunkers in the Airline Industry

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The durability of the transportation capital stock slows down the pace of decarbonization since newer vintages feature cutting-edge technology. If older vintages were to be retired sooner, the social cost of travel would decline. This paper analyzes and explores the viability of a potential...

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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 … 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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Do Airline Bankruptcies Reduce Air Service?

Borenstein, Severin - 2003

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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The Impact of Deregulation on the Employment and Wages of Airline Mechanics

Card, David - 1986

This paper describes the effects of deregulation on negotiated wage rates and employment levels of aircraft mechanics in the scheduled airline industry. Firm-specific data for the incumbent trunk airlines show relatively small changes in real wage rates since deregulation,and only recent...

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Deregulation and Labor Earnings in the Airline Industry

Card, David - 1996

This paper uses a variety of data sources to study the effect of deregulation on the structure of wages in the airline industry. Microdata from the 1980 and 1990 Censuses show a 10 percent decline in the relative earnings of airline workers after deregulation, with roughly similar declines for...

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Immediate and Longer-Term Housing Market Effects of a Major U.S. Airport Closure

Cohen, Jeffrey P.; Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Crews, Jonas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A busy airport's closure has large effects on noise, real estate markets, and neighborhood demographics. Using a unique … dataset, we examine the effects of closing Denver's Stapleton Airport on nearby housing markets. We find evidence of immediate … announcement and closing. However, after the airport closure, more higher-income and fewer black households moved in, and …

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Airports and Urban Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

While significant work has been done to examine the determinants of regional development, there is little evidence on the contribution of air services toward this outcome. This paper exploits the unexpected market changes induced by the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act to bring new evidence on the...

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All Clear for Takeoff : Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization

Howell, Sabrina T.; Jang, Yeejin; Kim, Hyeik; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

airport performance along a rich array of dimensions such as passengers per flight, total passengers, number of routes, number … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …. These effects are largest when there is a competing airport nearby. Finally, we show that outright ownership rather than …

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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...

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