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Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...
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We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
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This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A …
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Inhabitants of houses near Amsterdam Airport are complaining of noise nuisance, caused by aircraft traffic. The usual … around Amsterdam Airport as the sum of hedonic price differentials and a residual cost component. The residual costs are …
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theory says that the congestion tolls levied on the various airlines at a particular airport should generally be different …The likely resurgence of air traffic in the U.S. means that airport congestion is a problem that must soon be … imposed at selected U.S. airports in the relatively near future. The theory developed in this paper, which extends the results …
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This paper adds to the literature on transboundary pollution by considering pollution related to both production and consumption activities. In particular, we consider a symmetric strategic two firm-two country game model with bilateral trade and transboundary pollution to analyze the effects of...
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Carbon tax revenue recycling – returning tax revenue to firms or households that are covered by the carbon tax – can potentially increase political acceptance for carbon taxation and prevent undesirable distributional outcomes and off-shoring. This paper uses a stylized theoretical model to...
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The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...
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