This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when … motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian … rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate on gasoline is below the efficient tax rate while the current UK rate …

Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services …. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in …

This paper revisits the airline schedule-buffer choice problem analyzed by Brueckner, Czerny and Gaggero (2020) using a …

This study provides further empirical evidence on pricing by international airline alliances. The paper covers a long …

competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market …

The conventional wisdom that inflation expectations respond to the level of the price of oil (or the price of gasoline … support for the conventional wisdom. Using a new structural vector regression model, however, we demonstrate that gasoline … explained by a large increase in gasoline prices. However, on average, gasoline price shocks account for only 39% of the …

We propose a new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand that exploits systematic differences … across U.S. states in the pass-through of oil price shocks to retail gasoline prices. We show that these differences are … primarily driven by the cost of producing and distributing gasoline, which varies with states’ access to oil and gasoline …

airline delays a continuing problem around the world, such an under-taking is valuable, and its lessons extend to other … between the costs of ground-and flight-buffer time. The empirical results show the connection between buffer magnitudes and a …