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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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distributed across geographic locations, which can reproduce this stylized fact as a result of an expansion in the supply of … sustain debt. As a result, when the supply of credit increases and interest rates fall, they take on disproportionately more …
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We document that the implied volatility skew of S&P 500 index puts is non-decreasing in the disaster index and risk-neutral variance, contrary to the implications of a broad class of no-arbitrage models. The key to the puzzle lies in recognizing that, as the disaster risk increases, customers...
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, we provide the first estimates of broad-scale welfare and distributional implications of this supply boom. We provide new … estimates of supply and demand elasticities, which we use to estimate the drop in natural gas prices that is attributable to the … supply expansion. We calculate large, positive welfare impacts for four broad sectors of gas consumption (residential …
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suggests a bigger role for supply disruptions that restricted the ability of retailers to re-stock goods after the earthquake …
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This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...
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In US vaccine markets, competing producers with high fixed, sunk costs face relatively concentrated demand. The resulting price and quality competition leads to the exit of all but one or very few producers per vaccine. Our empirical analysis of exits from US vaccine markets supports the...
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constraining the gasoline and diesel supply chains. We consider several factors that alter the elasticity of supply, including … variation in the demand for untaxed uses of diesel. In general, we find that in periods of time when the supply chain is … supply disruptions such as after major hurricanes …
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We find that the supply of and demand for insurance for tree crops is much larger than for non-tree crops. Crop … for these specialty crops has little benefit for consumers, even when it generates a large supply response …
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influences the supply of amenities and local public goods. Pollution, congestion, and the quality of public education are …
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