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Economy
Collusive Duopoly: The Economic Effects of Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines’ Agreement to Reduce Capacity
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11), Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA). Section 116, Air Transportation…
UHERO Annual Hawai’i Forecast: Tourism Pause Means Further Slowing Ahead
There was a pause in Hawai’i tourism growth last year, held back by capacity constraints and relatively soft visitor demand. It will be several years…
Labor Market Effects of Employer-Provided Health Insurance
This is an experimental study in economics of mandated benefits. Most individuals who have health insurance in the US obtain it through their employer. Some…
Tourism’s Forward and Backward Linkages
This article proposes linkage analysis as a complement to the traditional tourism-impact analysis to examine tourism’s economic imprints on a destination’s economy. The starting point…
The Impact of 9/11 and Other Terrible Global Events on Tourism in the United States and Hawaii
This article reviews recent trends in travel and tourism in the United States and Hawaii to ascertain how the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and subsequent…
State Financing of Research Universities: The Role of State and University Characteristics
This study estimates the effect of underlying determinants on state funding of Doctoral/Research-Extensive Universities (DREU) in the U.S. Using panel data on 98 DREU over…
The Effect of Mandatory Employer-Sponsored Insurance (ESI) on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Force Utilization in Hawaii: Evidence from the Current Population Survey (CPS) 1994-2004
Using data from the Current Population Surveys, we examine the impact of Hawaii’s mandatory employer-sponsored insurance on health insurance coverage and employment structure in Hawaii.…
Identifying Long-run Cointegrating Relations: An Application to the Hawaii Tourism Model
Cointegration analysis has gradually appeared in the empirical tourism literature. However, the focus has been exclusively on the demand side, neglecting supply influences and risking…
The Contribution of the University of Hawai‘i to Hawai‘i’s Economy in 2003
The University of Hawai‘i had its beginnings in 1907 as a college of agriculture and mechanical arts and became the territoryís Land Grant College, a…