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On the Relevant Elasticity Estimates for Cost Structure Analyses of the Trucking Industry

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The effects of output qualities on costs of trucking firms could be evaluated at a given number of ton-kilometers or at a given number of shipments. This note shows that false interpretations of potential output qualities effects could occur when these effects are evaluated at a given number of ton-kilometers. Copyright 1990 by MIT Press.

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  • Gagne, Robert, 1990. "On the Relevant Elasticity Estimates for Cost Structure Analyses of the Trucking Industry," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 72(1), pages 160-164, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:72:y:1990:i:1:p:160-64
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    6. Ron Yang, 2022. "(Don’t) Take Me Home: Home Preference and the Effect of Self-Driving Trucks on Interstate Trade," NBER Chapters, in: Economics of Artificial Intelligence, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    8. Jara-Díaz, Sergio R. & Cortés, Cristián E. & Morales, Gabriela A., 2013. "Explaining changes and trends in the airline industry: Economies of density, multiproduct scale, and spatial scope," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 13-26.

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