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The European Transport Industry has been heavily deregulated during the past 30 years, through initiatives that … opening the transport industry have had. By analyzing current data, the impact of economic deregulation on the volume of … transport industry production is studied. The empirical evidence confirm the positive impact on the system wide level suggesting …
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We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic …
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In this paper, we revisit the empirical observation that prices rise like rockets when input costs increase but fall like feathers when input costs decrease. The analysis draws on a novel dataset that include daily retail prices of gasoline and diesel from virtually all fuel stations in Germany...
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the contexts of transport mode choice and vehicle purchase situations. The results indicate the existenceof a strong … correlation between the individuals’ preferences in both experiments. This way, individuals favoring private transport also favor …
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distributional effects hamper political acceptance. These distributional effects are especially important in transport, the fastest … lower and upper tails of the work distance distribution. We further estimate the causal effect of public transport - a … critical determinant of the upper tail - and show how public transport access can both reconcile differences in fuel price …
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This paper explores possible determinants that may affect an airline's decision to charge passengers different roundtrip fares depending on trip origin, a case of directional price discrimination. Such fare differences cannot be the result of differences in cost, as the cost of flying a...
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This paper examines the housing affordability conditions of the low and moderate income rental households in the United States between 1980 and 2010. Using Integrated Public Use Census Microdata Samples (IPUMS) 5% sample data, we create income and rent distribution for households separately for...
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With the election of a new government, intercity passenger rail, which had faded for years, is now back on President Obama's agenda. Technological innovation has brought focus to high speed intercity passenger rail transportation. This new focus has revealed too many people who are tired of...
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