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Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract American subnational governments commonly require voters to approve bond proposals, reflecting historical concerns about legislative shortsightedness. Yet voters need an understanding of how bond financing works to make choices consistent with preferences. Existing literature makes it unclear whether voters have such knowledge.
Shanna Pearson‐Merkowitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining Burden Reduction in Municipal Service Delivery: The Case of Streamlined Electric Vehicle Charger Permitting in California

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Administrative burdens are deliberate policy choices, as governments can proactively design rules and procedures to shape burdens experienced by citizens. While existing research has examined the effects of burden reduction strategies, less is known about the factors driving burden reduction actions at the local level.
Shan Zhou, Emma Mast
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances research on policy accumulation by analyzing its political consequences in the French housing sector. It argues that, in the context of decentralization reforms, the accumulation of policy instruments has undermined national steering capacities and intensified territorial inequalities.
Francesco Findeisen, Patrick Le Galès
wiley   +1 more source

Household indebtedness and well-being: Evidence from Australia. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Tammam M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the “quiet” politics of the pre‐2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become “noisy”. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them?
Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding expectations formation for hand‐to‐mouth households: lessons from the financial crisis

open access: yesThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study how poor hand‐to‐mouth and wealthy hand‐to‐mouth households in the United States form their expectations as compared to unconstrained households. To do so, we use monthly household data for the period 2005:2 to 2013:6 with information on the exact survey day for each household within a month.
Tufan Ekici   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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