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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023
how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289750
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305432
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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification
Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on … productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …
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Product unbundling in the travel industry : the economics of airline bag fees
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Darin N.; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2013
unbundling. The theory predicts that an airlineś fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793154
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European airline mergers, alliance consolidation, and consumer welfare
Brueckner, Jan K.; Pels, Eric - 2004
-KLM and SkyTeam alliances into a single mega-alliance. The results of the analysis show that, although the airlines benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402515
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Coordinated capacity reductions and public communication in the airline industry
Aryal, Gaurab; Ciliberto, Federico; Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2020
We investigate whether legacy U.S. airlines communicated via earnings calls to coordinate with other legacy airlines in … among airlines about their capacity choices. Estimates from our preferred specification show that when all legacy airlines … reduction materializes only when airlines communicate concurrently, and that it cannot be explained by other possibilities …
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A refutation of "common ownership does not have anti-competitive effects in the airline industry"
Azar, José; Schmalz, Martin C.; Tecu, Isabel - 2022
We show that the main claim in Dennis, Gerardi, and Schenone (JF forthcoming) (DGS), namely "that the documented positive correlation between common ownership and ticket prices stems from the market share component of the common ownership measure, and not the ownership and control components,"...
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Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements : should action in the EU and US be postponed?
Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2008
This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779483
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Carbon leakage, the green paradox and perfect future markets
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2009
Policies of lowering carbon demand may aggravate rather than alleviate climate change (green paradox). In a two-period three-country general equilibrium model with finite endowment of fossil fuel one country enforces an emissions cap in the first or second period. When that cap is tightened the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807900
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Green serves the dirtiest : on the interaction between Black and Green Quotas
Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2009
Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897546