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Productivity in the Transportation Sector

Gordon, Robert J. - 2007

productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment … data reduce the magnitude of the post-1973 productivity slowdown in transportation MFP growth from a previously reported 2 … airports, air traffic control, and highways, do not change appreciably the pattern of postwar MFP growth in transportation …

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What's Driving Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Transport Sector?

Choe, Derrick; Oettl, Alexander; Seamans, Robert - 2022

innovative activities in the transportation and warehousing sector of the U.S. economy. We suggest multiple avenues for future …

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The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good : Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand

Jacobsen, Grant - 2010

This paper develops a theory of voluntary provision of a public good in which a household's decision to engage in a form of environmentally friendly behavior is based on the desire to offset another behavior that is environmentally harmful. The model generates predictions about (1) participation...

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Endogenous Capital Utilization and Productivity Measurement in Dynamic Factor Demand Models : Theory and an Application to the U.S. Electrical

Prucha, Ingmar R. - 2010

Studies of the firm's demand for factor inputs often assume a constant rate of utilization of the inputs and ignore the fact that the firm can simultaneously choose the level and the rate of utilization of its inputs. In particular, the literature on dynamic factor demand models has, until...

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The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation

Borenstein, Severin - 2011

Generating electricity from renewable sources is more expensive than conventional approaches, but reduces pollution externalities. Analyzing the tradeoff is much more challenging than often presumed, because the value of electricity is extremely dependent on the time and location at which it is...

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Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency : The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector

Cropper, Maureen - 2011

We examine the impact of electricity sector restructuring on the operating efficiency of coal-fired power plants in India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from vertically integrated State Electricity Boards into state...

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Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency : Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power

Davis, Lucas W. - 2011

For the first four decades of its existence the U.S. nuclear power industry was run by regulated utilities, with most companies owning only one or two reactors. Beginning in the late 1990s electricity markets in many states were deregulated and almost half of the nation's 103 reactors were sold...

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The Smart Grid, Entry, and Imperfect Competition in Electricity Markets

Allcott, Hunt - 2014

Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the wholesale market price. The Smart Grid is a set of emerging technologies that, among other effects, will facilitate "real-time pricing" for electricity and increase price...

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Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages

Fisher-Vanden, Karen - 2014

In many countries, unreliable inputs, particularly those lacking storage, can significantly limit a firm's productivity. In the case of an increasing frequency of blackouts, a firm may change factor shares in a number of ways. It may decide to self generate electricity, to purchase intermediate...

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Cost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs

Arimura, Toshi H. - 2014

We analyze the cost-effectiveness of electric utility ratepayer-funded programs to promote demand-side management (DSM) and energy efficiency (EE) investments. We specify a model that relates electricity demand to previous EE DSM spending, energy prices, income, weather, and other demand...

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