We estimate the causal effect of shared e-scooter services on traffic accidents by exploiting the variation in the availability of e-scooter services induced by the staggered rollout across 93 cities in six countries. Police-reported accidents in the average month increased by around 8.2% after...

We describe a methodology for extracting a representative sample of motor vehicle traffic accidents from the United States during the period 2001-2020, and present some results from an analysis of the data. The source of the publicly available data is the US National Highway Traffic Safety...

Financial institutions are increasingly leveraging on advanced technologies, facilitated by the availability of Machine Learning methods that are being integrated into several applications, such as credit scoring, anomaly detection, internal controls and regulatory compliance. Despite their high...

Background: This study examines short- and long-run effects of a new — stricter — road traffic law on traffic accident-related fatalities in the Czech Republic. The law introduced tougher punishments through the introduction of a demerit point system and a manifold increase in fines,...

Are litigation rates higher where social capital is low? Using prefecture-level data, I ask whether Japanese in communities with high levels of "social capital" more readily settle their divorce and traffic accident disputes out-of-court. Although litigation rate studies often measure suits per...

Using Italian data, this article presents an econometric investigation of the effects on infractions and accidents of the introduction of a demerit point system (DPS), as an additional sanctioning mechanism for traffic infringements. Our main finding is that the coming into force of the DPS...

Americans drive 2,360,000,000,000 miles each year, far outstripping other nations. Every time a driver takes to the road, and with each mile she drives, she exposes herself and others to the risk of accident. Insurance premiums are only weakly linked to mileage, however, and have largely...

The Spanish Parliament is going to change the regulations concerning crimes against road and traffic safety, soon. Some of these changes are inspired by the legislations of the surrounding countries. This article sets out and analyses the regulations of this kind in France, Italy, Germany and...