Showing 1 - 10 of 261
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764375
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157335
We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of lin-guistic, religious,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533086
disamenities of airports) for individuals. In contrast to previous work, I analyze voting results on restricting airport operations …Airport noise is costly. Airport location is typically associated with lower property prices. Airport expansion often … sparks protests by local residents. In this paper, I provide new evidence on the costs of airport-related noise (and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872205
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711873
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379804
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498806
This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334230
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402503
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 … theory says that the congestion tolls levied on the various airlines at a particular airport should generally be different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410457