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AI, Skill, and Productivity : The Case of Taxi Drivers

Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI improves drivers' productivity by shortening the...

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AI, Skill, and Productivity : The Case of Taxi Drivers

Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - 2022

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Ai, Skill, and Productivity : The Case of Taxi Drivers

Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - 2022

We examine the impact of Articial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI improves drivers' productivity by shortening the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242701

Diversification, Coordination Costs and Organizational Rigidity : Evidence from Microdata

Rawley, Evan - 2012

This paper examines the impact of coordination costs and organizational rigidity on the returns to diversification. The central thesis is that coordination costs offset economies of scope, while organizational rigidity increases coordination costs, further constraining economies of scope. The...

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Il servizio di taxi in Italia : ragioni e contenuti di una riforma

Bentivogli, Chiara; Calderini, Manuela - In: Economia e politica industriale 34 (2007) 2, pp. 181-199

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Taxi services, platforms and Article 101 TFEU : changing the shape of the transport intermediation services industry?

Andreangeli, Arianna - In: Market and competition law review 4 (2020) 2, pp. 41-74

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Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Regulation : A Briefing

Zuluaga, Diego - 2021

Price and quantity regulations, as well as statutory vehicle and driver standards, for the taxi and PHV sector have long been justified on grounds of imperfect information (OECD 2008). The nature of taxi markets in the pre-digital era was such that searching (finding and sorting through the...

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Hire Authority : Turning Statutory Regulation into Private Regulation for the UK's Taxi Industry

Niemietz, Kristian Peter; Zuluaga, Diego - 2021

Over the past two years, there has been a worldwide regulatory backlash against new smartphone-app-based Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) operators, with Uber probably being the most emblematic one. While a few regulatory clarifications can be justified, the vast majority of measures have been...

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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification

Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …

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Entry and competition in freight transport : the case of a prospective transalpine rail link between France and Italy

Prady, Delphine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010

We analyze the expected effects of building a rail tunnel between Lyon and Turin on i) the market shares of the established and the new suppliers, and ii) consumer surplus. The prospective project consists of a 53km rail tunnel providing freight shippers with a new alpine path. We calibrate an...

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