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Do more trucks lead to more motor vehicle fatalities in European roads? : evaluating the impact of specific safety strategies
Castillo-Manzano, José I.; Castro-Nuño, Mercedes; … - 2015
Truck operations have recently become an important focus of academic research not only because road freight transport is a key part of logistics, but because trucks are usually associated with negative externalities including pollution, congestion and traffic accidents. While the negative...
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Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks : Implications of Recent Evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...
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Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks : Implications of Recent Evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292412
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Terrorism and misperceptions : evidence from Europe
Arin, Kerim Peren; Khalil, Umair; Mazrekaj, Deni; Thum, … - 2023
How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large-scale survey that measures misperceptions towards minority groups in four European countries. Our results show that terror attacks in the past increased misperceptions of the...
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Adaptation Measures in the EU : Policies, Costs, and Economic Assessment ('Climate Proofing' of Key EU Policies)
Altvater, Susanne - 2014
The aim of this report is to ascertain priority concerns for further climate proofing action through opposing current EU efforts to different threats, and suggest complementary options (cf. chapter 3) for the following four sectors: (1) Energy, (2) Transport infrastructure, (3) Urban areas, and...
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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
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The 2018 reform of EU ETS : consequences for Project Appraisal
Johansson, Per-Olov - 2020
The European Union's Emissions Trading System is the largest system in the world for trade in greenhouse gases. It used to be a cap-and-trade scheme with a fixed supply of permits. However, a recent reform of the system "punctures the waterbed" by making the supply of permits endogenous. The...
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Project appraisal in the reformed EU ETS : looking for shortcuts
Johansson, Per-Olov - 2020
The European Union’s Emissions Trading System, EU ETS, has been reformed, shifting the system from a fixed-cap system into a system with an endogenous supply of permits. This paper discusses how to handle the scheme in project appraisal. The focus is on a few relatively straightforward...
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On the Treatment of Emissions Trading and Green and White Certificates in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Johansson, Per-Olov - 2016
combat acid rain, and provides an illustration of the magnitude of the bias incurred if permits are valued at the marginal …
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The bias of the Gini coefficient due to grouping
Van Ourti, Tom; Clarke, Philip M. - 2008
We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining second order bias which is useful in empirical analyses. We analyze the … it reduces a considerable share of the bias due to grouping. …
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