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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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Does Pre-Play Social Interaction Improve Negotiation Outcomes?
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Cabrales, Antonio; Mateu, Guillermo; … - 2018
We study experimentally the impact of pre-play social interactions on negotiations. These interactions are often complex. Thus, we attempt to isolate the impact of several of its more common components: conversations, food, and beverages, which could be alcoholic or nonalcoholic. To do this, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018130
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Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking
Ahammer, Alexander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Halla, Martin; … - 2020
morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal access to alcohol increases the frequency and intensity of … drinking, which results in more hospital admissions due to alcohol intoxication. The effects are stronger for boys and … access to alcohol is very high and hardly changes at the MLDA. However, teenagers consider binge drinking at weekends to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492952
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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also … document a sharp drop in violent crimes, indicating a tight link between alcohol and aggressive behaviour in society. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177629
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Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2022
In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic … other predictors of alcohol consumption or cross-border effects. A brief discussion of the policy implications of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266710
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None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2021
, from alcohol consumption to criminal activities other than drink driving. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599246
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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality : Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles DH; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also … document a sharp drop in violent crimes, indicating a tight link between alcohol and aggressive behaviour in society. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299240
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Market Size and Number of Firms with New Technology
Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Das, … - 2022
In this paper, unlike the conventional wisdom, we demonstrate that the relationship between the size of the market and number of firms would be non-monotonic. While moderate rise in the size would force the local firms to exit and only the foreign firm rules, substantial rise in the size would...
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Contesting Fake News
Rehsmann, Daniel; Roussillon, Béatrice; Schweinzer, Paul - 2023
We model competition on a credence market governed by an imperfect label, signaling high quality, as a rank-order tournament between firms. In this market interaction, asymmetric firms jointly and competitively control the underlying quality ranking's precision by releasing individual...
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Vertical product differentiation when quality is unobservable to buyers
Orosel, Gerhard O.; Zauner, Klaus G. - 2004
We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...
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