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Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters
Public 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
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An updated analysis of coding pattern differences in Medicare Advantage. [PDF]
Health Aff SchAlbanese J +3 more
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Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract State‐administered pension plans report paying roughly $20 billion each year in fees to external asset managers, much of it for high‐cost, high‐risk “alternative” assets such as private equity and hedge funds. These outcomes involve trillions in pension investments that affect the retirement security of millions of public sector workers and ...
Jeffrey C. Diebold, Cody R. Taylor
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Regional variation in overweight and associations with regional profiles using a Japanese national open-source database. [PDF]
PLoS OneYoshigai M, Goto E, Takada D, Imanaka Y.
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Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract The review of sales tax exemptions represents a significant undertaking for states across the United States. This analysis introduces a set of tax policy criteria to evaluate these exemptions in response to prevalent stakeholder considerations. We implement these criteria in the context of North Carolina's exemption of unprepared food from the
Whitney Afonso, Alex Combs
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From Opportunity to Constraint: Structural Inequities in Public Pension Fund Investing
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how structural features shape participation in private equity across U.S. state and local public pension systems. Using panel data from the Boston College Public Plans Database the analysis introduces the concept of structural asymmetries to explain persistent differences in access to illiquid investment strategies ...
Odd J. Stalebrink
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Editorial: Reality Checking Some Publishing Myths, and Thanking CORR' s Peer Reviewers. [PDF]
Clin Orthop Relat ResLeopold SS.
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Better VAT for Both Explicit and Implicit Financial Fees
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, several countries have initiated reforms on their VAT regimes to include financial services, following the emergence of various methods for taxing both implicit and explicit fees. This article provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of these reforms.
Guillermo Peña
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Prescription Use and Spending After the Introduction of a Real-Time Prescription Benefit Tool.
JAMA Netw OpenZink A +6 more
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