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Incentives to provide local public goods: fiscal federalism, Russian style [PDF]
Based on a unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods.
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment on Local Communities [PDF]
The large increase in direct foreign investment (DFI) into the United States in the late 1980s has generated considerable research on why these flows occurred and where these foreign firms located.
Bruce A. Blonigen, David N. Figlio
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California's Arts and Cultural Ecology [PDF]
, 2011 Californians create, organize, and nurture one of the world's richest arts and cultural ecologies. Across diverse landscapes, they preserve traditions and unveil cutting-edge new artwork. As artists, cultural leaders, community-builders, and arts lovers,
Ann Markusen +3 more
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Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal +3 more
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Economic Forecasting for Large Russian Cities [PDF]
The Budget Code of the Russian Federation requires that local self-governments prepare their budgets for the next year taking into account the likely economic situation in that year.
Douglas Wissoker +2 more
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Oцінка ефективності формування доходів місцевих бюджетів України (Evaluation of the effectiveness of formation the local budgets in Ukraine) [PDF]
, 2016 У статті розкрито питання визначення суті та значення доходів місцевих бюджетів України, проаналізовано динаміку доходів місцевих бюджетів України протягом 2013-2015 рр.
Дем’янчук, О. (O. Demyanchuk) +1 more
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On a Bounded Budget Network Creation Game
, 2012 We consider a network creation game in which each player (vertex) has a fixed budget to establish links to other players. In our model, each link has unit price and each agent tries to minimize its cost, which is either its local diameter or its total ...
Abbas Mehrabian +8 more
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This Perspective examines practical power solutions for wearable healthcare systems, highlighting the limits of standard batteries. It categorizes wearables into four domains—point‐of‐care diagnostics, episodic monitoring, continuous long‐term monitoring, and therapeutic platforms—and analyzes their power needs.
Seokheun Choi
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