Greasy roads: The impact of bad financial news on road traffic accidents

Risk Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 556-566

  Vandoros, Sotiris ^a,b   Kavetsos, Georgios ^a   Dolan, Paul ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austerity measures; Road accidents; Well being

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL);

AUSTERITY MEASURES; FINANCIAL NEWS; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS; WELL-BEING;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

DATA SET; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

ECONOMICS; GREECE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ECONOMICS; GREECE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84896543740     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12123     Document Type: Article

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