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Portage : Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History

Bleakley, C. Hoyt - 2010

transport of goods required portage around the falls at these points, while some falls provided water power during early …

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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012

Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...

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The Economics of Place-Making Policies

Glaeser, Edward L.; Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2021

Should the national government undertake policies aimed at strengthening the economies of particular localities or regions? Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not...

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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy

Busso, Matias - 2010

This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...

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Time to Ship During Financial Crises

Berman, Nicolas - 2012

We show that the negative impact of financial crises on trade is magnified for destinations with longer time-to-ship. A simple model where exporters react to an increase in the probability of default of importers by increasing their export price and decreasing their export volumes to...

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Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport

Cristea, Anca D. - 2015

greenhouse gas emissions associated with output versus international transportation of traded goods. International transport is … categories like machinery, electronics and transport equipment. US exports intensively make use of air cargo; as a result two …-thirds of its export-related emissions are due to international transport, and US exports by themselves generate a third of …

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Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard : Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in U.S. Trucking

Lafontaine, Francine; Masten, Scott E. - 2021

This paper considers functions of contracting other than the protection of relationship-specific investments and the provision of marginal incentives, and applies the theory to explain variation in the form of compensation of over-the-road truck drivers in the U.S. Specifically, we argue that...

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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics

Moreno Cruz, Juan Bernardo - 2014

We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...

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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2012

The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....

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Productivity in the Transportation Sector

Gordon, Robert J. - 2007

This is a comprehensive study of measurement and substantive issues that arise in determining the rate of multi factor productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment are provided by two government agencies and...

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