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Did liberalising bar hours decrease traffic accidents?

Green, Colin P.; Heywood, John. S.; Navarro, Maria - In: Journal of Health Economics 35 (2014) C, pp. 189-198

Legal bar closing times in England and Wales have historically been early and uniform. Recent legislation liberalised closing times with the object of reducing social problems thought associated with drinking to “beat the clock.” Indeed, using both difference in difference and synthetic...

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Railway (De-)regulation in EU Member States and the Future of European Rail

Scherp, J. - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 4, pp. 26-33

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Regulation and Deregulation in the Japanese Rail Industry

Mizutani, Fumitoshi - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 4, pp. 10-15

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Railway (De-)regulation in Germany

Knieps, Günter - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 4, pp. 21-25

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Unintended Benefits of Election Day Alcohol Bans: Evidence from Road Crashes and Hospitalizations in Brazil

Nakaguma, Marcos Yamada; Restrepo, Brandon - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2014

We analyze the impact of Election Day alcohol bans on road traffic accidents, traffic-related injuries, and alcohol …,733 municipalities the decision to implement alcohol bans. Using daily-level data on municipalities, we find that alcohol bans caused … analysis of the hospitalization costs associated with traffic accidents reveals that banning the sale of alcohol saved Brazil …

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The effects of tobacco taxes on health : an analysis of the effects by income quintile and gender in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine

Denisova, Irina; Kuznetsova, Polina - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The main objectives of this paper are to estimate the burden of tobacco-caused mortality as a whole and by main tobacco-related diseases in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, and to assess the distributional health impact of an increase in tobacco taxation in these three countries....

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Is Beer Safer than Spirits? How the Change in Consumption Shares of Alcoholic Beverage Types Affects Traffic Mortality in Young People

Freeman, Donald G. - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 61 (2012) 4

This paper uses cross-state and cross-regional time series to estimate the effect of the variation in shares of alcohol …

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Advertising bans

Motta, Massimo - In: SERIEs 4 (2013) 1, pp. 61-81

I show that an advertising ban is more likely to increase—rather than decrease—total consumption when advertising does not bring about a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product differentiation (thus allowing firms to command higher prices). In this...

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State and Industrial Actions to Influence Consumer Behavior

Brockwell, Erik - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

This thesis consists of an introductory part and three papers. <p> Paper [I] examines how taxes affect consumption of commodities that are detrimental to health and the environment. Specifically, this paper examines if a tax increase leads to a significantly larger change in consumption than a...</p>

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Advertising bans

Motta, Massimo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

I show that an advertising ban is more likely to increase -- rather than decrease -- total consumption when advertising does not bring about a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product differentiation (thus allowing firms to command higher prices). In this...

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