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The service sector expansion has shown to be a multiple trend process, producing distinct sectorial compositions. The present paper aims to make a comparison between two large economies in different stages of development with an extensive service sector (Brazil and United States), by focusing on...
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The European Transport Industry has been heavily deregulated during the past 30 years, through initiatives that increase competition among incumbents primarily by reducing the entry restrictions and by opening the market(s) for non-state owned companies. This paper discusses the impact the...
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This paper discusses the development of international flow of funds accounts; it compiles and analyzes such accounts with a focus on the global financial crisis. For this purpose, we compile from-whom-to-whom financial stock tables for Japan, Korea, the United States, and China and combine these...
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This paper develops a multi-sector innovation model and derives a theoretical and empirical framework for an innovation version of the input-output matrix. Using industry-level total factor productivity data, we estimate innovation input-output matrices and examine the properties of innovation...
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transportation, and counterfactual policies. We show that the air pollution emissions per mile of new US vehicles has fallen …
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income to price discriminate when setting roundtrip fares. Fares are found to be $0.18-$0.43 higher on average for each $1 …,000 difference in average per capita income between origin and destination metro areas. This finding is sensible assuming that higher …
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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 … distributions by using a unique ‘matching technique' so that the lowest-household income is matched with the lowest-rent and so on …
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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 modern transportation problems, such as airline delay and highway …
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The development of high speed rail infrastructures in the US faces a great challenge given the concern of economic viability and political complexity. However, a deeper investigation reveals that most of these concerns and complexity issues can be explained from a cultural perspective, which...
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s proposal to make the United States a “world leader” in high‐​speed rail … particularly poorly timed considering that the COVID-19 pandemic has made many people question mass transportation in general. One … lesson of the pandemic is that the most resilient transportation system we have is motor vehicles and highways. Rather than …
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