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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16189

Classification
Wirtschaft
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Subject
airline fuel consumption
energy conservation
carbon dioxide emissions

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Brueckner, Jan K.
Kahn, Matthew E.
Nickelsburg, Jerry
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2023

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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

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