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Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Period Poverty in Brazil: A Public Health Emergency. [PDF]

open access: yesHealthcare (Basel)
Moraes MFRC, Nunes R, Duarte I.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Supreme Court of Canada interprets the fitness to stand trial test in R v. Bharwani

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract At the core of the common law, rooted in fairness, is the principle that an accused must be “fit” or “competent” to answer charges pursued by the state. Fitness rules vary considerably across jurisdictions but generally share the requirement that the accused be able to actively participate in the conduct of their defense.
Dennis Curry, Jason Quinn
wiley   +1 more source

Reforming nursing reimbursement: direct payment models under Iran's Nursing Service Act in a global context. [PDF]

open access: yesCost Eff Resour Alloc
Hatefimoadab N   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Securing Democracy: Online Political Advertising Regulations and Practices in the EU and its Member States

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

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