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Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 This paper quantifies the health impacts of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks, the effectiveness of tank regulation, and the role of information as a policy tool in the same setting.
M. Marcus
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The American Economic Review, 2019 Traditional approaches to structural vector autoregressions (VARs) can be viewed as special cases of Bayesian inference arising from very strong prior beliefs.
C. Baumeister, James D. Hamilton
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The Local Economic and Welfare Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 Exploiting geological variation and timing in the initiation of hydraulic fracturing, we find that fracking leads to sharp increases in oil and gas recovery and improvements in a wide set of economic indicators. There is also evidence of deterioration in
Alexander W. Bartik +3 more
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Learning to Coordinate: A Study in Retail Gasoline
The American Economic Review, 2019 This paper studies equilibrium selection in the retail gasoline industry. We exploit a unique dataset that contains the universe of station-level prices for an urban market for 15 years, and that encompasses a coordinated equilibrium transition mid ...
David P. Byrne, Nicolas D B. Roos
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Exchange Rate and Trade in Services Nexus in Nigeria: A Non-Linear ARDL Approach
Athens Journal of Business & Economics, 2022 A nonlinear ARDL model is employed to investigate the asymmetric drivers of non-oil trade in services between Nigeria and Netherlands. A significant number of past studies have concentrated their attention on the elasticity of trade in services to real ...
N. Audu, Titus O. Obiezue
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Consumer Valuation of Fuel Costs and Tax Policy: Evidence from the European Car Market
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018 To what extent do car buyers undervalue future fuel costs, and what does this imply for tax policy? To address both questions, we show it is crucial to account for consumer mileage heterogeneity.
Laura Grigolon +2 more
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Are Consumers Myopic? Evidence from New and Used Car Purchases
, 2013 We investigate whether car buyers are myopic about future fuel costs. We estimate the effect of gasoline prices on short-run equilibrium prices of cars of different fuel economies.
Meghan R. Busse +2 more
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Drilling Like There’s No Tomorrow: Bankruptcy, Insurance, and Environmental Risk
The American Economic Review, 2019 This paper measures the effects of bankruptcy protection on industry structure and environmental outcomes in oil and gas extraction. Using administrative data from Texas, I exploit variation in an insurance requirement that reduced firms’ ability to ...
J. Boomhower
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Consumer Myopia in Vehicle Purchases: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019 A central question in the analysis of fuel economy policy is whether consumers are myopic with regards to future fuel costs. We provide the first evidence on the consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment that provides exogenous ...
Kenneth Gillingham +2 more
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(Mis)Allocation, Market Power, and Global Oil Extraction
The American Economic Review, 2019 We propose an approach to measuring the misallocation of production in a market that compares actual industry cost curves to undistorted (counterfactual ) supply curves.
John Asker +2 more
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