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The Agglomeration of Urban Amenities : Evidence from Milan Restaurants
Leonardi, Marco; Moretti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
this type of spillovers has proven difficult. We test for the presence of agglomeration spillovers in Milan's restaurant … 2005, Milan mandated a minimum distance between restaurants that kept the spatial distribution of restaurants artificially … restaurants and retail establishments in Milan between 2000 and 2012, we study how the spatial distribution of restaurants changed …
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Fear of Flying? Economic Analysis of Airline Safety
Rose, Nancy L. - 1991
The safety of the commercial airline industry has attracted considerable public attention and debate since economic deregulation of the industry in 1978. These concerns have energized economic research on three aspects of airline safety. First, has the level of airline safety declined since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475216
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Economic Analysis of Accident Law
Shavell, Steven - 2003
Accident law is the body of legal rules governing the ability of victims of harm to sue and to collect payments from those who injured them. This paper contains the chapters on accident law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469004
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Economic Analysis of Accident Law
Shavell, Steven - 2003
Accident law is the body of legal rules governing the ability of victims of harm to sue and to collect payments from those who injured them. This paper contains the chapters on accident law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469220
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The "Arms Race" on American Roads : The Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Traffic Safety and the Failure of Liability Rules
White, Michelle J. - 2002
Drivers have been running an 'arms race' on American roads by buying increasingly heavy vehicles such as SUVs, vans and light trucks. Families view large vehicles as providing better protection to their own occupants if a crash occurs, but these vehicles pose an increased danger to occupants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469404
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Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics
Levitt, Steven D. - 1999
Measuring the relative likelihood of fatal crash involvement for different types of drivers would seem to require information on both the number of fatal crashes by driver type and the fraction of drivers on the road falling into each category. In this paper, however, we present a methodology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471863
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Per-Mile Premiums for Auto Insurance
Edlin, Aaron S. - 1999
Americans drive 2,360,000,000,000 miles each year, far outstripping other nations. Every time a driver takes to the road, and with each mile she drives, she exposes herself and others to the risk of accident. Insurance premiums are only weakly linked to mileage, however, and have largely...
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Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry
Puller, Steven L. - 2009
This paper investigates why passengers pay substantially different fares for travel on the same airline between the same two airports. We investigate questions that are fundamentally different from those in the existing literature on airline price dispersion. We use a unique new dataset to test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463094
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The Structure of Production, Technical Change and Efficiency in a Multiproduct Industry : An Application to U.S. Airlines
Good, David H. - 1991
In this paper we construct a short run model of the firm describing the behavior of thirteen U.S. airlines during the difficult transition to deregulation. Several modeling scenarios are developed to assess three common assumptions in cost studies: the use of time as a proxy for technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475045
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Accounting for Price Endogeneity in Airline Itinerary Choice Models : An Application to Continental U.S. Markets
Lurkin, Virginie - 2016
Network planning models, which forecast the profitability of airline schedules, support many critical decisions, including equipment purchase decisions. Network planning models include an itinerary choice model that is used to allocate air total demand in a city pair to different itineraries....
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