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Reactivity in Economic Science
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949113
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Atomistic Congestion Tolls at Concentrated Airports : Seeking a Unified View in the Internalization Debate
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2007
The goal of this paper is to bring some unity to the theoretical side of the debate on internalization of airport congestion by showing that all the literature's theoretical results can be derived within one simple and unified framework. The analysis starts by replicating the results of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776625
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Slot-Based Approaches to Airport Congestion Management
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2008
This paper analyzes slot-based approaches to management of airport congestion, using a model where airlines are asymmetric and internalize airport congestion. Under these circumstances, optimal congestion tolls differ across carriers, and since a slot-sale regime (with its uniform slot price)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771860
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Convenient Flight Connections vs. Airport Congestion - Modeling the 'Rolling Hub'
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2015
This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A continuous spatial model illustrates this trade-off in a framework where a small gap between flight operating times raises congestion while also shortening a connecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014357
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General Equilibrium with Contracts
Kwon, Suehyun - 2017
This paper studies general equilibrium when workers in the economy are also consumers of final goods. Once a firm and a worker are matched, there is a standard moral hazard problem. However, the firm's profit depends on the price of the good the worker produces, and the price is determined by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964063
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The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation
Habla, Wolfgang - 2016
In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997332
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What Marx Means Today
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2017
Marx made significant contributions to macroeconomics, laying the grounds for both Keynes's theory of aggregate demand … and Schumpeter's theory of creative destruction. His law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall parallels Alvin … Hansen's theory of secular stagnation which has recently received much attention among scholars studying the financial crises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954595
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Household Models : An Historical Perspective
Apps, Patricia F.; Rees, Ray - 2021
the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to … provide a deeper understanding of the current theoretical literature on household economics by means of a survey of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316648
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137445
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Recent Trends in Co-Authorship in Economics : Evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014982