Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters
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
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Distribution of pharmacy deserts and its association with digital divide and residential redlining across the United States. [PDF]
Catalano G, Woldesenbet S, Pawlik TM.
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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
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Associations between 1930s HOLC grades and estimated population burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors in 2020. [PDF]
Wei H +8 more
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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
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Bias in AI systems: integrating formal and socio-technical approaches. [PDF]
Ahmad A, Vallès Y, Idaghdour Y.
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Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks
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
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Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019-2021. [PDF]
Hing AK +4 more
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Systemic risk in the insurance sector: A semi‐parametric approach based on Spearman's rho
Abstract We propose a new method to measure systemic risk in the global insurance sector by analyzing interconnectedness among firms under different market conditions. Using a semi‐parametric approach that relies on the Spearman correlation and copula‐based partial dependence, we assess relationships in relatively stable, extremely bullish, and ...
Leonardo Iania +2 more
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FinTech and financial instability. Is this time different? [PDF]
Ioannou S, Wójcik D, Urban M.
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