Arbeitspapier
How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?
Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This portfolio approach allows us to study the utilization and composition of the capital stock at a highly disaggregated level. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16189
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
- Subject
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airline fuel consumption
energy conservation
carbon dioxide emissions
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Brueckner, Jan K.
Kahn, Matthew E.
Nickelsburg, Jerry
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Brueckner, Jan K.
- Kahn, Matthew E.
- Nickelsburg, Jerry
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2023