Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century

Edward L. Glaeser, James M. Poterba, and Stephen J. Redding, Organizers

May 3, 2024

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Friday, May 3
	Welcome James Poterba, MIT and NBER
11:09am	Session I: Transportation Infrastructure Chair: Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER
11:10am	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 All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization
11:35am	Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER Peter Blair Henry, Stanford University and NBER Pablo Picardo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Public Spending and the Public's Priorities: Road(s) to Alignment
11:59am	Session II: Supply Chains and the Transportation Sector Chair: Stephen Redding, Princeton and NBER
12:00pm	Xiwen Bai, Tsinghua University Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Yiliang Li, University of International Business and Economics Francesco Zanetti, University of Oxford The Causal Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions on Macroeconomic Outcomes: Evidence and Theory
12:25pm	Andrew Petrisin, U.S. Department of Transportation The FLOW Initiative and Supply Chain Research (slides)
	Break
1:04pm	Session III: Artificial Intelligence, Electrification, and the Transportation Sector Chair: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
1:05pm	Adam S. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maggie B. Yellen Decision-Making with Machine Prediction: Evidence from Predictive Maintenance in Trucking
1:30pm	Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution AI at the Wheel: The Effectiveness of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
1:55pm	Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER Felix Tintelnot, Duke University and NBER Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Effects of “Buy American”: Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act
2:20pm	Break
2:29pm	Session IV: Empirical Studies of Transportation Economics Chair: James Poterba, MIT and NBER
2:30pm	Cody Cook, Yale University Pearl Z. Li, Federal Trade Commission Value Pricing or Lexus Lanes? The Distributional Effects of Dynamic Tolling
2:55pm	Léa Bou Sleiman, NBER Displacing Congestion: Evidence from Paris
3:20pm	Pedro G. Degiovanni, Harvard University Ron Yang, University of British Columbia Economies of Scale and Scope in Railroading
3:45pm	Closing Remarks and Adjourn