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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retirement Savings Incentives for Low‐ and Middle‐Income Individuals: Does Government Funded Matching Change Behaviour?*

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
We evaluate a government‐funded matching policy for retirement savings contributions targeted at low‐ and middle‐income individuals. Using a difference‐in‐difference approach, we exploit administrative changes to the Australian Government's retirement contribution matching (co‐contribution) policy to identify the impact of the programme on savings ...
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
wiley   +1 more source

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

Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
wiley   +1 more source

Annuities in Switzerland [PDF]

open access: yes
Switzerland's pension system has attracted considerable attention, mainly due to its reliance on a three-pillar structure. A relatively small pay-as-you-go system (first pillar) is complemented by a mandatory, employer-based, fully funded occupational ...
Butler, Monika, Ruesch, Martin
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