Author: Philipp Lukas WegelinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Essays in Transportation Economics and Sports Economics
Author: Philipp Lukas WegelinEssays in Transportation Economics and Policy
Author: Jose A. Gomez-IbanezPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815715696
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of transportation economic policy pays homage to a classic work, Techniques of Transportation Planning, by renowned transportation scholar John R. Meyer. With contributions from leading economists in the field, it includes added emphasis on policy developments and analysis. The book covers the basic analytic methods used in transportation economics and policy analysis; focuses on the automobile, as both the mainstay of American transportation and the source of some of its most serious difficulties; covers key issues of urban public transportation; and analyzes the impact of regulation and deregulation on the U.S. airline, railroad, and trucking industries. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Alan A. Altshuler, Harvard University; Ronald R. Braeutigam, Northwestern University; Robert E. Gallamore, Union Pacific Railroad; Arnold M. Howitt, Harvard University; Gregory K. Ingram, The Wold Bank; John F. Kain, University of Texas at Dallas; Charles Lave, University of California, Irvine; Lester Lave, Carnegie Mellon University; Robert A. Leone, Boston University; Zhi Liu, The World Bank; Herbert Mohring, University of Minnesota; Steven A. Morrison, Northeastern University; Katherine M. O'Regan, Yale University; Don Pickrell, U.S. Department of Transportation; John M. Quigley, University of California, Berkeley; Ian Savage, Northwestern University; and Kenneth A. Small, University of California Irvine.
Sports Economics After Fifty Years
Author: Plácido RodríguezPublisher: Universidad de Oviedo
ISBN: 9788483176054
Category : Professional sports
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book is a collection of ten essays, which are the result of the "Conference on Sports Economics: Rottenberg's Golden Anniversary" at the University of Oviedo in Gijón, Spain (28-29 April 2006), held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of an article by Simon Rottenberg in the "Journal of Political Economy" titled "The Baseball Players' Labor Market". The essays can be grouped into three broad themes: the economic impact of sport and the economic analysis of public policies with regard to sport; the economic analysis of professional sports; and the analysis of European football and its future perspectives.
Essays on Transport Economics
Author: Pablo Coto-MillánPublisher: Physica
ISBN: 9783790822601
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This book explores analytical methods used in transportation economics and policy analysis. Encompassing fields of economics such as Industrial Organisation, Welfare Economics, General Equilibrium Theory and Input-Output-Analysis, the study of transport from an economic point of view serves as a test bench for applying methodologies of economic science to the real world. Each chapter opens with a brief theoretical introduction before evaluating case studies, using the state-of-the-art statistical and econometric techniques.
The Economics of Sports
Author: William S. KernPublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880992107
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Authored by economists, the six essays collected here provide a picture of economic principles at work in the arena of big-time sports. The 1998-1999 NBA lockout, the economic effects of sports stadiums, and the level of parity in leagues and conferences are used to present analyses of contemporary economic issues including industrial organization, influences of labor markets, the effect of racial discrimination, market power, the behavior of cartels, and price discrimination. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Essays in Transportation Economics and Industrial Organization
Author: Kim MakuchPublisher:
ISBN: 9781339835112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This dissertation consists of three chapters: one chapter in industrial organization and two chapters in transportation economics. The first chapter studies competition between geographically differentiated firms selling differentiated products. Using an original data set of prices at a franchised retail coffee bar in New York City, this chapter examines how a retailer's price varies with its degree of geographic differentiation from competitors. The evidence shows that the relationship between price and geographic differentiation depends on the extent to which a product is differentiated from competitors' products in other characteristics. If products are otherwise sufficiently differentiated, prices are higher when competing retailers are located geographically close together. Products that are not sufficiently differentiated in other characteristics, by contrast, face lower prices when geographic differentiation is smaller. The findings appear to be consistent with multidimensional product differentiation models.The second and third chapters study driver behavior in congested traffic. The second chapter determines the size of the congestion externality generated by different vehicle types. Analysis of detailed vehicle trajectory data provides evidence that light trucks (pickups, sport utility vehicles, and vans) use 4--6% more road space than cars because drivers follow light trucks at a greater distance and light truck drivers follow other vehicles at a greater distance than car drivers. Using a bottleneck congestion model, I estimate that the average delay on a California freeway could be reduced by 26% or $2.2 million annually if all light trucks were replaced with cars.The third chapter explores the reliability of heuristics drivers may use to judge relative speed and make lane change decisions. Using vehicle trajectory data, I find that a driver may underestimate her speed relative to other lanes. She is also more likely to do so in heavily congested traffic. Given the external costs of lane changing and the evidence presented in this chapter, many lane changes are likely neither socially nor privately optimal.
The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics Volume 2
Author: Leo H. KahanePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195387783
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Shmanske and Kahane have organized over 50 essays from prominent Sports Economists into two volumes around two related themes. This second volume explains how sports helps economics via quality data used to test a variety of economic theories.
Circling the Bases
Author: Andrew ZimbalistPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439902844
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Contains essays in which Andrew Zimbalist examines the challenges facing the sports industry in the second decade of the twenty-first century, discussing the financial crisis in college sports, labor relations in professional leagues, the economic impact of the Olympics, and other topics.
Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy
Author: Jose A. Gomez-IbanezPublisher: Brookings Inst Press
ISBN: 9780815791454
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
The book covers the basic analytic methods used in transportation economies and policy analysis; focuses on the automobile, as both the mainstay of American transportation and the source of some of its most serious difficulties; covers key issues of urban public transportation; and analyzes the impact of regulation and deregulation on the U.S. airline, railroad, and trucking industries.
Author: Katrine Hjorth