New Directions in Transportation Economics.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on New Directions in Transportation Economics took place May 25 online. Research Associates Edward L. Glaeser of Harvard University, James M. Poterba of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting, which was supported by the US Department of Transportation through an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation, grant #1559013. A keynote address was delivered by Alexander Budzier of the University of Oxford. Tese researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis, and Erich Muehlegger, University of California, Davis and NBER, "Te Economics of Electric Vehicles" (NBER Working Paper 29093)

* Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER; Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER; and Teodore Papageorgiou, Boston College, "Transport Markets, Port Infrastructure, and World Trade"

* Valentin Bolotnyy, Stanford University, and Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER, "Scaling Auctions As Insurance: A Case Study in Infrastructure...