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Harrigan, James - 2005

Airplanes are a fast but expensive means of shipping goods, a fact which has implications for comparative advantage. The paper develops a Ricardian model with a continuum of goods which vary by weight and hence transport cost. Comparative advantage depends on relative air and surface transport...

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Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest? Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry

Zingales, Luigi - 1997

This paper studies the impact that capital market imperfections have on the natural" selection of the most efficient firms by estimating the effect of the pre-deregulation level of" leverage on the survival of trucking firms after the Carter deregulation. Highly leveraged" carriers are less...

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Routes of Infection : Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Oster, Emily - 2007

I generate new data on HIV incidence and prevalence in Africa based on inference from mortality rates. I use these data to relate economic activity (specifically, exports) to new HIV infections in Africa and argue there is a significant and large positive relationship between the two: a doubling...

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Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard : Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in U.S. Trucking

Lafontaine, Francine - 2002

This paper considers functions of contracting other than the protection of relationship-specific investments and the provision of marginal incentives, and applies the theory to explain variation in the form of compensation of over-the-road truck drivers in the U.S. Specifically, we argue that...

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Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport

Cristea, Anca D. - 2011

We collect extensive data on worldwide trade by transportation mode and use this to provide detailed comparisons of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with output versus international transportation of traded goods. International transport is responsible for 33 percent of world-wide...

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Time to Ship During Financial Crises

Berman, Nicolas - 2012

We show that the negative impact of financial crises on trade is magnified for destinations with longer time-to-ship. A simple model where exporters react to an increase in the probability of default of importers by increasing their export price and decreasing their export volumes to...

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Immediate and Longer-Term Housing Market Effects of a Major U.S. Airport Closure

Cohen, Jeffrey P.; Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Crews, Jonas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A busy airport's closure has large effects on noise, real estate markets, and neighborhood demographics. Using a unique … dataset, we examine the effects of closing Denver's Stapleton Airport on nearby housing markets. We find evidence of immediate … announcement and closing. However, after the airport closure, more higher-income and fewer black households moved in, and …

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Airline Schedule Recovery after Airport Closures : Empirical Evidence Since September 11th

Rupp, Nicholas G. - 2003

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, repeated airport closures due to potential security breaches have … irregular operations. Our results indicate that while outcomes of flights scheduled during airport closures are difficult to … likelihood of continued security-related airport closings, understanding the factors that determine schedule recovery is …

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Do Airline Bankruptcies Reduce Air Service?

Borenstein, Severin - 2003

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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Airports and Urban Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

While significant work has been done to examine the determinants of regional development, there is little evidence on the contribution of air services toward this outcome. This paper exploits the unexpected market changes induced by the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act to bring new evidence on the...

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