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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents

Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019

crimes and in this paper we focus on a very serious and widespread one, hit-and-run road accidents. In fact, it is not only … affecting the probability of apprehension and find that the likelihood of hit-and-run conditional on an accident taking place …

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Road Infrastructure and the Skill Premium : Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Chatterjee, Santanu; Lebesmuehlbacher, Thomas; … - 2022

We examine the relationship between new road infrastructure and local labor markets in India's manufacturing sector by … driven by large firms, especially those with a large share of transportation assets, indicating the presence of capital …

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Sorting Charles Tiebout : the construction and stabilization of postwar public good theory

Singleton, John D. - 2013

A substantial and diverse literature in economics traces its intellectual roots to Charles Tiebout's 1956 article, "The Pure Theory of Local Expenditure." Its present recognition frequently attributed to originating the idea of "voting with your feet," however, contrasts sharply with its...

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Size and soft budget constraints

Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 2006

There is much evidence against the so-called too big to fail hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...

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It's good weather for more government : the effect of weather on fiscal policy

Souza, Gustavo Moreira de - 2022

increase in expenditure is directed towards a larger police and safety budget. This result is compatible with a model of … complementarity between consumption and public goods. In the model, high-income voters support an increase in safety budget because …

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Local taxation, land use regulation, and land use : a survey of the evidence

Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Hilber, Christian; Schöni, Olivier - 2017

that offer the preferred combination of land consumption and public services. 4) Expanding transportation networks enables …

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Infrastructure Development and Strategy for Gujarat

Morris, Sebastian - 2012

Brings out various features of infrastructural development in Gujarat, and provides an explanation in terms of endowments and political economy for the enhanced performance of Gujarat in some of the physical infrastructure segments like electricity, roads, ports. Suggest suitable policy and...

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Return the Streets

Thornton, Jim G. - 2001

Unadopted roads are more environmentally friendly, and safer for children and drivers than those adopted by the local council. They follow their residents' priorities for street lighting, security, and speed bumps better than local authority ones. They cost less to create and maintain and...

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Do Rail Transit Stations Encourage Neighborhood Retail Activity?

Schuetz, Jenny - 2014

Over the past 20 years, California has made substantial investments in intra-metropolitan passenger rail infrastructure, expanding existing systems and building new ones. According to advocates of New Urbanism, such investment should encourage the growth of mixed-use transit-oriented...

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Congestion by accident? : traffic and accidents in England : (extended abstract)

Pasidis, Ilias-Nikiforos - 2015

The goal of this paper is the estimation of the effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. In order to … do this, I use "big data" of highway traffic and accidents in England for the period 2007-2013. The data exhibit some … remarkably stable cyclical pattern of highway traffic which is used as a research setting that enables the identification of the …

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