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as the slow mobility and unpleasant pollution. The way in which the managers chose to answer the question has been … infrastructure and the corresponding institutional arrangement foreshadow transform the profile of the region and encourage the …
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This paper provides a link between car following theory and the economic theoryof road congestion by means of a theory of speed choice. According to this theory speedchoice is based on a trade-off between the benefits (shorter travel time) and cost (higheraccident risk) of driving faster....
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This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
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This study estimates the dose-response relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and crash risk in commercial motor vehicle operators. Intake data was collected on 744 new truck drivers who were training for their commercial driver's licenses at a school operated by the cooperating trucking...
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This paper presents the statistics of deaths from road accidents in Brazil in 2013 as well as the evolution of total deaths and mode of transport in the last 15 years using the mortality data of the Ministry of Health. In Brazil killed about 43,000 people each year in car accidents being the...
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Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major cause of fatalities worldwide. There have been a range of legislative and policy interventions that aim to address this. Bar closing hours is one policy with clear implications for drink driving. Existing evidence, largely drawn from one-off...
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state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s …, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show that higher levels of Stasi surveillance led to lower levels of … losses throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Overall, our results suggest that the social and economic costs of state surveillance …
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month. Moreover, the effect of HFT is more pronounced than the role of trading rules, surveillance, enforcement and legal …
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We examine the impact of stock exchange trading rules and surveillance on the frequency and severity of suspected … of each stock exchange, along with surveillance to detect non-compliance with such rules, we show that more detailed … exchange trading rules and surveillance over time and across markets significantly reduce the number of cases, but increase the …
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Without transparency, trade agreements are just words on paper. Transparency as disclosure allows economic actors and trading partners to see how rules are implanted; transparency in decision-making ensures fairness and peer review. In the first section of this paper, I discuss the logic of...
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