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Congestion and Market Structure in the Airline Industry

Ater, Itai - Stanford University - 2007

Empirical research on the relationship between market congestion and themarket competitive level largely falsifies the … on the level of congestion duringperiods in which passengers cross-connect to their final destinations.About 70% of hub ….Furthermore, based on a simple theoretical model, I am able to quantifythe potential time savings from eliminating congestion …

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Decomposing the Congestion Effect and the Cross-Platform Effect inTwo-Sided Networks: A Field Experiment

Tucker, Catherine; Zhang, Juanjuan - MIT Sloan School of Management; MIT Sloan School of … - 2008

hand, a strong rival presence may dissipate payoff (a'congestion effect'). On the other hand, a large number of rivals … congestion effect. However, when the number of sellers ispresented in isolation, its negative impact on entry is …

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Adaptation, Internalization and Environmental Damage

Abrego, Lisandro; Whalley, John - 2002

significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities …

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North American freight rail: regulatory evolution, strategic rejuvenation, and the revival of an ailing industry

Cramer, Barton Emmet - 2007

North American railways were crucial to the integration of national territories from the mid-1850s through the 1920s. In the US, Canada, and Mexico, their development supported population settlement, resource extraction, industrialization, and the expansion of markets to regional and national...

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Labor market structure and fertility differences among Puerto Rican women: The effects of economic and social policies on opportunity costs

Zsembik, Barbara A. - 1990

The oft-observed inverse relationship between economic activity in the formal or informal sector and levels of fertility is attributed to the opportunity costs of reproduction. The economic and social policies that initiate and maintain the substantial flow of federal transfer payments to the...

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The Market for Transportation-Land Use Integration: Do Developers Want Smarter Growth than Regulations Allow?

Levine, Jonathan; Inam, Aseem - 2004

Transportation and land use research of the past decade has focused in large part on the question of whether manipulating land uses in the direction of “smart growth” alternatives can reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) or otherwise improve travel behavior. Yet the notion of...

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Global production networks and the changing geography of innovation systems : implications for developing countries

Ernst, Dieter - 2000

This paper addresses disruptive changes that globalization imposes on the geography of innovation systems, and identifies potential benefits that developing countries could reap from international linkages. The analysis is centered on three propositions. First, developing countries need to blend...

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On the dynamics of capital accumulation across space

Camacho, Carmen; Zou, Benteng; Briani, Maya - 2005

We solve an optimal growth model in continuous space, continuous and bounded time. The optimizer chooses the optimal trajectories of capital and consumption across space and time by maximizing an objective function with both space and time discounting. We extract the corresponding Pontryagin...

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Regional income differences and market accessibility in the enlarged European Union : a simultaneous spatial CGE and estimation approach

Nils Happich - 2010

This dissertation examines the key prediction of trade models à la Dixit-Stiglitz for the EU-27. Precisely, we test if regional market accessibility determines regional income differences in the enlarged European Union. We propose an empirical strategy that overcomes weaknesses of existing...

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The spatial distribution of population in Spain: an anomaly in European perspective

Gutiérrez Chacón, Eduardo; Moral Benito, Enrique; … - 2020

Utilizando información sobre la distribución de la población por cada kilómetro cuadrado de Europa (GEOSTAT 2011), este artículo documenta que España es el país con un mayor porcentaje de territorio deshabitado y una mayor concentración de la población en determinadas zonas...

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