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Airline Mitigation of Propagated Delays : Theory and Empirics on the Choice of Schedule Buffers
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2019
This paper presents an extensive theoretical and empirical analysis of the choice of schedule buffers by airlines. With airline delays a continuing problem around the world, such an under-taking is valuable, and its lessons extend to other passenger transportation sectors. One useful lesson from...
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The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhood Change on Incumbent Families
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2019
A number of prominent studies examine the long-run effects of neighborhood attributes on children by leveraging variation in neighborhood exposure through household moves. How-ever, much neighborhood change comes in place rather than through moving. Using an urban economic geography model as a...
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Free Neighborhood Choice Boosts Socially Optimal Outcomes in Stag-Hunt Coordination Problem
Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2021
Situations where independent agents need to align their activities to achieve individually and socially beneficial outcomes are abundant, reaching from everyday situations like fixing a time for a meeting to global problems like climate change agreements. Often such situations can be described...
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How to Be a Good Forerunner in Carbon Neutral Trucking
Littlejohn, Christina; Proost, Stef - 2021
-haul truck transport is partly international this raises problems of coordination among countries. We study the possible pricing … an e-truck. We study the outcome of this international coordination game exploring the non-cooperative outcome varying … the relative size of the forerunner in international truck traffic and varying the cost of electric highways …
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Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles
Bayer, Christian - 2020
How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we estimate a heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete markets and portfolio choice between liquid and illiquid assets. The model enlarges the set of shocks and...
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Will Destination-Based Taxes Be Fully Exploited When Available? An Application to the U.S. Commodity Tax System
Agrawal, David R. - 2019
-level policies that increase tax avoidance opportunities, the results of the empirical model broadly confirm our theory …
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Non-Linearities and Persistence in US Long-Run Interest Rates
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; … - 2021
This note examines the stochastic behaviour of US monthly 10-year government bond yields. Specifically, it estimates a fractional integration model suitable to capture both persistence and non-linearities, these being two important properties of interest rates. Two series are analysed, one from...
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The Short and the Long of it : Stock-Flow Matching in the US Housing Market
Smith, Eric; Xie, Zoe; Fang, Lei - 2022
This paper investigates the US housing market from just before the Great Recession onward (2006-2019) and assesses the viability of stock-flow matching in generating the observed outcomes. The paper documents that the probability a house sells declines sharply after listing for two weeks....
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Redistribution with Performance Pay
Doligalski, Pawel - 2020
Half of the jobs in the U.S. feature pay-for-performance. We study nonlinear income taxation in a model where such contracts arise in private labor markets that are constrained by moral hazard frictions. We derive novel formulas for the incidence of arbitrarily nonlinear reforms of a given tax...
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Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Mortality in U.S. Cities During the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were measured by Markel, et al. (2007) for U.S. cities during the second wave of the Great Influenza Pandemic, September 1918-February 1919. Â The NPIs were in three categories: school closings, prohibitions on public gatherings, and quarantine/isolation....
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