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2008 Annual Meeting
Transportation and Public Utilities Group
January 4-6, 2008, New Orleans, LA

TPUG Sessions

(Please click on the link for session details)

 

 

January 4,12:30 p.m.

 

Regulating Public Utilities

Hilton Chequers 

January 4,  2:30 p.m.

 

Competition and Technology in Transportation

Hilton Chequers 

January 5, 10:15 a.m.

 

Issues in Surface Transportation

Hilton Durham 

January 6, 8:00 a.m.

 

Network Neutrality

(Joint with AEA)

Hilton Chequers 

 

 

 

TPUG Annual Business Meeting and Cocktail Party

Friday, January 4, 2008, 6:00 pm, -7:30 p.m.

Hilton Durham

 

TPUG Annual Luncheon

Saturday, January 5, 2008, 12:30-1:45 p.m.

Hilton Steering

 

Please make a reservation before December 15, 2007 with

John H. Brown

 


 

Conference Program

 

Regulating Public Utilities

 

Friday January 4, 12:30 p.m.

Hilton Chequers 

Presiding: Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan University

Carolyn Gideon, Tufts University
“Disconnecting: Universal Service on the Decline”

Sam Kayaga, Loughborough University
“Water Demand Management: A Key Building Block for Sustainable Urban Water Management”

John Ying, University of Delaware
“Testing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Competition on Cable Television Rates”

Discussants:

Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan University
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Competition and Technology in Transportation

 

Friday, January 4, 2:30 p.m.

Hilton Chequers 

 

Presiding: Jeffrey P. Cohen, University of Hartford

Jan Brueckner and Vivek Pai, University of California-Irvine
“Technological Innovation in the Airline Industry: The Impact of Regional Jets”

W. David Walls and Lasheng Yuan, University of Calgary
“Organization, Strategy, and Competition in Transportation Networks”

Kevin E. Henrickson, Gonzaga University and Wesley Wilson, University of Oregon “Market Dominance and Competition: A Study of Spatial Price Discrimination in Rail Markets”

Jia Yan, Washington State University, Xiaowen Fu, Hong Kong Polytechnical University, Tae Oum, University of British Columbia
“Market Power, Product Differentiation, and Hub Premium”

Discussants:
Robert Windle, University of Maryland
Ken Button, George Mason University
Andrew Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
John Howard Brown, Georgia Southern University

 

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Issues in Surface Transportation

 

Saturday, January 5, 10:15 a.m.

Hilton Durham 

 

Presiding:

Cletus C. Coughlin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

 

Jeffrey P. Cohen, University of Hartford, Kristen Monaco, California State University-Long Beach
“Inter-County Spillovers and Ports and Roads Infrastructure Investment”

Richard Arnott, Boston College
“The Corridor Problem”

Richard Fowles, University of Utah, Peter Loeb, Rutgers University, William Clarke, Bentley College
“The Determinants of Motor Vehicle Fatalities Using Specification Testing and Bayesian Stochastic Search Variable Selection Methods”

Wayne K. Talley, Old Dominion University, Di Jin and Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
“Determinants of the Damage Cost and Injury Severity of Ferry Vessel Accidents”

Discussants:

Miguel Ramirez, Trinity College
Ian Sue Wing, Boston University
Martin Dresner, University of Maryland
William Clarke, Bentley College

 

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Network Neutrality

(Joint with AEA)

Sunday, January 7, 8:00 a.m.

Hilton Chequers 

Presiding

Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan University

Gerry Faulhaber, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
“Net Neutrality: the Core of the Debate”

Simon Wilkie, University of Southern California
“Principles for Network Neutrality”

Eli Noam, Columbia University, “Net Neutrality in Practice.”


Discussants:

Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University
Martin Perry, Rutgers University
John Mayo, Georgetown University

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Call for Papers 2009

The annual meeting of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) will be held January 3-6, 2009, in conjunction with the Allied Social Science Association annual meetings in San Francisco, California.  The TPUG invites papers in areas related to transportation, energy, telecommunications, and water and wastewater.  Highly technical papers are not appropriate for the sessions sponsored by TPUG.

If you would like to submit a paper for consideration, please send an electronic copy of the paper title, one-page abstract, and author contact information to:

 Professor Jeffrey Cohen

 President, TPUG,

The Barney School of Business,

200 Bloomfield Ave.

University of Hartford,

West Hartford CT. 06117 or electronically to professorjeffrey@gmail.com

 

 

Email copies to professorjeffrey@gmail.com are preferred. 

 The proposed abstracts should be submitted by March 1, 2008.    Final papers will be due November 2, 2007.  All program  participants must register for the AEA convention and become  TPUG members ($20 TPUG membership fee).

 

 

 

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Future TPUG/AEA Annual Meetings

American Association Schedule of Future Meetings http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/anmt.htm

  • January 3-5, 2009 (San Francisco, CA)
  • January 3-5, 2010 (Atlanta, GA)
  • January 7-9, 2011 (Denver, CO)
  • January 6-8, 2012 (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)....Chicago, IL
  • January 4-6, 2013 (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)....San Diego, CA

     

The preliminary program of the AEA annual meetings can be found at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/aea

 

 

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