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Airline Schedule Recovery after Airport Closures : Empirical Evidence Since September 11th

Rupp, Nicholas G.; DeSimone, Jeffrey S.; Holmes, George M. - 2021

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, repeated airport closures due to potential security breaches have … irregular operations. Our results indicate that while outcomes of flights scheduled during airport closures are difficult to … likelihood of continued security-related airport closings, understanding the factors that determine schedule recovery is …

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Do Airline Bankruptcies Reduce Air Service?

Borenstein, Severin; Rose, Nancy L. - 2021

The airline industry's current financial crisis has raised concerns over the ramifications of airline bankruptcies for air service and the economy. Such bankruptcies, however, nearly always occur when demand is weak, and, thus, when even healthy airlines are inclined to reduce flights. Moreover,...

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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?

Greaney, Brian - 2014

This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups typically rely on outside agents to found and administer the groups although funds are raised by the group members. The innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by...

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Open Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-Up Problem in the Two-Sided Market for Academic Journals

McCabe, Mark J. - 2019

The move from traditional to open-access journals—which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees—is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this...

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Can You Get What You Pay for? Pay-for-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers

Mullen, Kathleen J. - 2010

Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool for improving quality of care, there is little empirical basis for its effectiveness. We use data from published performance reports of physician medical groups contracting with a large...

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Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision

Spencer, Michael A. - 2010

This paper considers how six alternative rebate rules affect voluntary contributions in a threshold public-good experiment. The rules differ by (1) whether an individual can receive a proportional rebate of excess contributions, a winner-takes-all of any excess contributions, or a full rebate of...

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The Effect of Taxes on Royalties and the Migration of Intangible Assets Abroad

Mutti, John - 2010

Migration of intangible assets from the United States to foreign countries has become easier due to the ability of U.S. firms to create hybrid entities in their affiliates abroad and to reach favorable cost sharing agreements with them. This strategy was particularly encouraged by the U.S....

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College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree : Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities

Garibaldi, Pietro - 2010

Many students enrolled in academic programs around the world take longer to obtain a degree than the normal completion time while college tuition is typically constant during the years of enrollment. In particular, it does not increase when a student remains in a program beyond the normal...

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On the Regulation of Fee Structures in Mutual Funds

Das, Sanjiv Ranjan - 2010

We offer an alternative framework for the analysis of mutual funds and use it to examine the rationale behind existing regulations that require mutual fund advisor fees to be of the fulcrum' variety. We find little justification for the regulations. Indeed, we find that asymmetric incentive...

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Fees on Fees in Funds of Funds

Brown, Stephen J. - 2009

Funds of funds are an increasingly popular avenue for hedge fund investment. Despite the increasing interest in hedge funds as an alternative asset class, the high degree of fund specific risk and the lack of transparency may give fiduciaries pause. In addition, many of the most attractive hedge...

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