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This paper presents a model of vehicle choice and empirically examines the risk posed by light trucks (sport-utility vehicles, vans, and pickups) to those that drive them and to other drivers, relative to the risk posed by cars. It compares the relative risk of dying and the relative crash...
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The German Environmental Liability Law (ELL) of 1991 has introduced far-reaching civil liability for environmental … environmental liability insurance (ELI). As reliable accident reporting has begun only after the implementation of the new law into … actually been achieved. One and a half decades after the introduction of that law, we undertake a new attempt to investigate …
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-rated malpractice liability insurance. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous location of public hospitals in court …
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-rated malpractice liability insurance. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous location of public hospitals in court …
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insurance companies. One of the most notable and debated developments in the law of tort and insurance since the 1970s has been … amount, timing, or allocation of payments to insureds made in the “shadow of the law” of bad faith. We drew on the 1992 …
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results show no support for external returns to education, except for skilled workers. -- Human capital externalities ; social …
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in order to specify the shape of utility function with preference externalities. Theoretical studies on social preference …
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externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …. An analysis by sector reveals that human capital externalities are more pronounced in manufacturing than in the service …
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externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …. An analysis by sector reveals that human capital externalities are more pronounced in manufacturing than in the service …
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This paper is concerned with fiscal externalities arising from local taxation of a mobile factor. Using a panel of more … neighborhood affect the local tax base. The results support the existence of fiscal externalities: an increase in the tax rate of …
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