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Airline Alliances, Carve-Outs and Collusion
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2011
airline alliances. We show that the gains from economies of density due to higher interline traffic under the alliance … airline alliance subject to a carve-out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119837
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Carve-Outs Under Airline Antitrust Immunity
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2009
This paper offers the first formal economic analysis of carve-outs under airline antitrust im- munity. Carve-outs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154266
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Communications Technology and Terrorism
Mahmood, Rafat - 2020
By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852045
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Airline Fuel Usage and Carbon Emissions : Determining Factors
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2016
an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail …) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its aircraft, average stage length (flight distance); average load factor … (measured by weight); the average vintage (construction year) of its aircraft; the percentage of the airline's flights that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982466
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Political Leader Survival : Does Competence Matter?
Yu, Shu; Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2021
We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce leader heterogeneity in the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003) and derive the hypothesis that in the presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315693
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Strategic Implications of Counter-Geoengineering : Clash or Cooperation?
Heyen, Daniel - 2018
substantial externality on the rest of the world. We analyze whether the threat of counter-geoengineering technologies capable of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910620
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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development
Lessmann, Christian - 2017
We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962986
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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo - 2017
(equivalent to over 93 percent of the world population) from 1950 to 2014. Our results produce strong evidence for a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964049
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Who Has Terror Angst? Perceptions of the Effects of Terror on the World Economy
Boumans, Dorine - 2016
World Economic Survey assess the effect of terror on the world economy and the economy of their own country. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981592
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Lock, Stock, and Barrel : A Comprehensive Assessment of the Determinants of Terror
Gassebner, Martin - 2011
We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120973