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How new airport infrastructure promotes tourism : evidence from a synthetic control approach in German regions

Dörr, Luisa; Dorn, Florian; Gäbler, Stefanie; … - 2019

We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a … military air base into a regional commercial airport in the German state of Bavaria. The new airport opened in 2007 and … new commercial airport increased tourism in the Allgäu region over the period 2008-2016. The positive effect is especially …

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Coups, regime transition, and the dynamics of press freedom

Bjørnskov, Christian; Freytag, Andreas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2018

This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...

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