Alcoholic beverages as determinants of traffic fatalities
Publisher
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Estadística, Estructura Económica y Organización Económica Internacional
Date
2008-09Bibliographic citation
Alcamentos, N. 0803
Keywords
Fatalities
Alcoholic beverages
Sanctions
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
The most important contribution of this research lies in considering the impact of wine, beer and liquors on the ratio of traffic fatalities because each kind of alcoholic beverage is characterized by different ethanol content. The data, drawn for case of Spain, validate our theoretical hypothesis. Our findings support the strategy of incrementing alcohol taxes in order to reduce the negative externalities of alcohol abuse. However, it is necessary to implement non-economic policies because of the existence of collateral effects (positive crossed price elasticities).
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