Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century
Organized by Edward L. Glaeser, James M. Poterba, and Stephen J. Redding
Supported by the US Department of Transportation through an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation
May 3, 2024
Zoom
Friday, May 3
Welcome
James Poterba, MIT and NBER
11:09am
Session I: Transportation Infrastructure
Chair: Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER
11:10am

All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization

Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Yeejin Jang, University of New South Wales
Hyeik Kim, University of Alberta
Michael S. Weisbach, The Ohio State University and NBER
11:35am

Public Spending and the Public's Priorities: Road(s) to Alignment

Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER
Peter Blair Henry, Stanford University
Pablo Picardo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:59am
Session II: Supply Chains and the Transportation Sector
Chair: Stephen Redding, Princeton and NBER
12:00pm

The Causal Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions on Macroeconomic Outcomes: Evidence and Theory

Xiwen Bai, Tsinghua University
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Yiliang Li, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)
Francesco Zanetti, University of Oxford
12:25pm

The FLOW Initiative and Supply Chain Research (slides)

Andrew Petrisin, U.S. Department of Transportation
Break
1:04pm
Session III: Artificial Intelligence, Electrification, and the Transportation Sector
Chair: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
1:05pm

Decision-Making with Machine Prediction: Evidence from Predictive Maintenance in Trucking

Adam S. Harris, Cornell University
Maggie B. Yellen, Federal Trade Commission
1:30pm

AI at the Wheel: The Effectiveness of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston
Clifford Winston, The Brookings Institution
1:55pm

The Effects of “Buy American”: Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act

Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Felix Tintelnot, Duke University and NBER
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:20pm
Break
2:29pm
Session IV: Empirical Studies of Transportation Economics
Chair: James Poterba, MIT and NBER
2:30pm

Value Pricing or Lexus Lanes? The Distributional Effects of Dynamic Tolling

Cody Cook, Yale University
Pearl Z. Li, Yale University
2:55pm

Displacing Congestion: Evidence from Paris

Léa Bou Sleiman, National Bureau of Economic Research
3:20pm

Economies of Scale and Scope in Railroading

Pedro G. Degiovanni, Charles River Associates
Ron Yang, University of British Columbia
3:45pm
Closing Remarks and Adjourn