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Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy : The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
Holland, Stephen P. - 2011
subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies currently in use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461272
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Productivity in the Transportation Sector
Gordon, Robert J. - 1991
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 … control, and highways, do not change appreciably the pattern of postwar MFP growth in transportation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475182
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Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transportation Markets
Brancaccio, Giulia - 2020
In this paper we explore efficiency and optimal policy in decentralized transportation markets that suffer from search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481494
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The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health : Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth
McCrary, Justin - 2006
This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the school entry date. School entry policies affect female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466336
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Parochial Interests and the Centralized Provision of Local Public Goods : Evidence from Congressional Voting on Transportation Projects
Knight, Brian - 2003
transportation project funding. The empirical results provide evidence that legislators respond to common pool incentives: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468950
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The Political Economy of Transportation Investment
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017
Will politics lead to over-building or under-building of transportation projects? In this paper, we develop a model of … perceive. Consequently, national funding of transportation leads to overspending, since voters more readily perceive the upside … educated and organized urban voters. Our framework also predicts more per capita transportation spending in low-density and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454996
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Externalities of Policy-Induced Scrappage : The Case of Automotive Regulations
Forsythe, Connor R.; Jha, Akshaya; Michalek, Jeremy J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Many transportation policies indirectly affect vehicle travel and resulting externalities by inducing changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435108
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2011
"We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395038
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The First Year of the Eurosystem : Inflation Targeting or Not?
Svensson, Lars E.O. - 2000
This paper is a brief evaluation of the Eurosystem's monetary-policy regime after its first year, in particular of the extent to which it is similar to inflation targeting as practiced by an increasing number of central banks. I examine the Eurosystem's goals, framework for monetary-policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470926
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Looking for Contagion : Evidence from the ERM
Favero, Carlo A. - 2000
This paper applies a full-information technique to test for the presence of contagion across the money markets of ERM member countries. We show that whenever it is possible to estimate a model for interdependence, a test for contagion based on a full information technique is more powerful. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470953