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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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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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Ethnographic and Field Data in Historical Economics

Lowes, Sara - 2022

This chapter will cover recent research in historical economics that uses ethnographic data and data from surveys and lab experiments. The study of historical economics, particularly outside of non-Western countries, has been constrained by availability of historical data. However, recent work...

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Airports and Urban Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

While significant work has been done to examine the determinants of regional development, there is little evidence on the contribution of air services toward this outcome. This paper exploits the unexpected market changes induced by the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act to bring new evidence on the...

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Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data

Jones, Charles I. - 2019

Data is nonrival: a person's location history, medical records, and driving data can be used by any number of firms simultaneously. Nonrivalry leads to increasing returns and implies an important role for market structure and property rights. Who should own data? What restrictions should apply...

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Ai, Labor, Productivity and the Need for Firm-Level Data

Seamans, Robert - 2018

We summarize existing empirical findings regarding the adoption of robotics and AI and its effects on aggregated labor and productivity, and argue for more systematic collection of the use of these technologies at the firm level. Existing empirical work primarily uses statistics aggregated by...

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Big Data and Big Cities : The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015

New, “big” data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when...

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The Promise and Potential of Linked Employer-Employee Data for Entrepreneurship Research

Goetz, Christopher - 2015

In this paper, we highlight the potential for linked employer-employee data to be used in entrepreneurship research, describing new data on business start-ups, their founders and early employees, and providing examples of how they can be used in entrepreneurship research. Linked...

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Economics and the Modern Economic Historian

Abramitzky, Ran - 2015

I reflect on the role of modern economic history in economics. I document a substantial increase in the percentage of papers devoted to economic history in the top-5 economic journals over the last few decades. I discuss how the study of the past has contributed to economics by providing ground...

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Capital Control Measures : A New Dataset

Fernàndez, Andrés - 2015

We present and describe a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and outflows of ten categories of assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building on the data first presented in Martin Schindler (2009), and other datasets based on the analysis of the IMF's...

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