Similar Search Results

Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity

Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018

efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily … literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906240

The quantification of structural reforms in OECD countries : a new framework

Égert, Balázs; Gál, Peter - 2017

observed changes in policies, the paper finds that product market regulation has the largest overall single policy impact five … market regulation. The paper also shows that policy impacts can differ at different horizons. The overall long-term effects …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638280

The quantification of structural reforms : extending the framework to emerging market economies

Égert, Balázs - 2018

. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800715

The quantification of structural reforms : taking stock of the results for OECD and non-OECD countries

Égert, Balázs - 2020

This paper summarises earlier OECD work aimed at quantifying the impact of structural reforms on economic outcomes. It overviews i.) insights obtained for the linear relationships linking policies and economic outcomes (including multi-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388225

Measuring strategic firm interaction in product-quality choices : the case of airline flight frequency

Brueckner, Jan K.; Luo, Dan - 2013

This paper investigates strategic interaction among airlines in product-quality choices. Using an instrumental variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline's frequency on a route to its own characteristics and to the frequencies of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690744

Airline emission charges : effects on airfares, service quality, and aircraft design

Brueckner, Jan K.; Zhang, Anming - 2009

load factors, and raise aircraft fuel efficiency, while having no effect on aircraft size. Given that these adjustments …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808132

Airline alliances and service quality

Brueckner, Jan K.; Flores-Fillol, Ricardo - 2018

Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900765

Gender differences within the firm : evidence from two million travelers

Donna, Javier D.; Veramendi, Gregory - 2020

We document gender differences in the price paid for work-related air travel among similar workers within a firm. We show that women pay consistently less per ticket than men, after accounting for a large set of covariates that include the characteristics of the trips, the employers, and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319436

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 offering fewer seats on competitive routes. To this end, we first use text analytics to build a novel dataset on communication among airlines about their capacity choices....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171806

Airline mitigation of propagated delays : theory and empirics on the choice of schedule buffers

Brueckner, Jan K.; Czerny, Achim Ingo; Gaggero, Alberto A. - 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 undertaking is valuable, and its lessons extend to other passenger transportation sectors. One useful lesson from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110214