no code implementations • 4 Aug 2023 • Raphaelle G. Coulombe, Akhil Rao
We study the dynamic effects of fires on county labor markets in the US using a novel geophysical measure of fire exposure based on satellite imagery.
no code implementations • 10 May 2022 • Akhil Rao, Francesca Letizia
The data are combined with a multi-shell and multi-species Particle-in-a-Box (PIB) model of the debris environment and a two-stage budgeting model of commercial, civil government, and defense decisions to allocate new launches across orbital shells.
no code implementations • 8 May 2022 • Aditya Jain, Akhil Rao
We develop a game-theoretic model of national regulatory policies and self-enforcing international treaties for orbit-use management in the face of open access, regulatory competition, and catastrophe.
no code implementations • 12 Feb 2022 • Akhil Rao, Giacomo Rondina
We present a dynamic physico-economic model of Earth orbit use with endogenous satellite collision risk to study conditions under which debris-producing collisions between orbiting bodies result in debris growth that may render Earth's orbits unusable, an outcome known as Kessler Syndrome.