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How Airline Markets Work...Or Do They? Regulatory Reform in the Airline Industry

Borenstein, Severin - 2007

Following a brief review of the U.S. domestic airline industry under regulation (1938-1978), we study the changes that have occurred in pricing, service, and competition in the 28 years since deregulation. We then examine some of the major public policy issues facing the industry: (a) the...

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First Cabin Fares from New York to the British Isles, 1826-1914

Dupont, Brandon - 2016

We present a continuous time series on first cabin passenger fares for ocean travel from New York to the British Isles covering nearly a century of time. We discuss the conceptual and empirical difficulties of constructing such a time series, and examine the reasons for differences between the...

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The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2020

New York City's multipronged subway system was a major disseminator – if not the principal transmission vehicle – of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. The near shutoff of subway ridership in...

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Estimating the Gains from New Rail Transit Investment : A Machine Learning Tree Approach

Chin, Seungwoo - 2017

Urban rail transit investments are expensive and irreversible. Since people differ with respect to their demand for trips, their value of time, and the types of real estate they live in, such projects are likely to offer heterogeneous benefits to residents of a city. Using the opening of a major...

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Subways and Urban Growth : Evidence from Earth

Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco - 2018

We investigate the relationship between the extent of a city's subway network, its population and its spatial configuration. For the 632 largest cities in the world we construct panel data describing population, measures of centralization calculated from lights at night data, and the extent of...

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Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2015

This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...

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Subways and Urban Air Pollution

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2018

We investigate the effect of subway system openings on urban air pollution. On average, particulate concentrations are unchanged by subway openings. For cities with higher initial pollution levels, subway openings reduce particulates by 4% in the area surrounding a city center. The effect decays...

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Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions : Evidence from the Elimination of ‘3-in-1’ in Jakarta

Hanna, Rema - 2017

In cities worldwide, the widespread use of single occupancy cars often leads to traffic congestion and its associated ill effects. Using high frequency data from Google Maps, we test whether high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) policies can be an effective tool to combat congestion. Using the unexpected...

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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights : Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

Alston, Lee J. - 2010

We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto … depending on the violence potentials of de facto and de jure claimants. We examine land settlement and conflict on the frontiers … relatively peaceful where claimants have reasons to organize collectively (Australia and the U.S.). The settlement process will …

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A. - 2021

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...

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