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 | ||
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Welcome James Poterba, MIT and NBER |
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| 11:09am |
Session I: Transportation Infrastructure Chair: Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11:59am |
Session II: Supply Chains and the Transportation Sector Chair: Stephen Redding, Princeton and NBER |
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| 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 |
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| 12:25pm |
Andrew Petrisin, U.S. Department of Transportation The FLOW Initiative and Supply Chain Research |
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| Break | ||
| 1:04pm |
Session III: Artificial Intelligence, Electrification, and the Transportation Sector Chair: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER |
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| 1:05pm |
Adam S. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maggie B. Yellen Decision-Making with Machine Prediction: Evidence from Predictive Maintenance in Trucking |
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| 1:30pm |
Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution AI at the Wheel: The Effectiveness of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems |
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| 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 |
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| 2:20pm | Break | |
| 2:29pm |
Session IV: Empirical Studies of Transportation Economics Chair: James Poterba, MIT and NBER |
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| 2:30pm |
Cody Cook, Yale University Pearl Z. Li, Federal Trade Commission Value Pricing or Lexus Lanes? The Distributional Effects of Dynamic Tolling |
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| 2:55pm |
Léa Bou Sleiman, National Bureau of Economic Research Displacing Congestion: Evidence from Paris |
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| 3:20pm |
Pedro G. Degiovanni, Harvard University Ron Yang, University of British Columbia Economies of Scale and Scope in Railroading |
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| 3:45pm | Closing Remarks and Adjourn | |