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Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2010-2011 Update and Policy Options [PDF]

, 2010
Evaluates the net fiscal impact of the voucher program on state and local public funds in terms of spending on students and the distribution of the impact among property taxpayers in and outside of Milwaukee, state taxpayers, and Milwaukee public ...
Robert M. Costrell
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Retirement Savings Incentives for Low‐ and Middle‐Income Individuals: Does Government Funded Matching Change Behaviour?*

Economic 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

Entry and Exit of Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Public Policy Concerns and a Proposed Solution. [PDF]

Banking authorities must resolve or otherwise deal with existing banks that are weak or insolvent without imposing costs on consumers or taxpayers. Two aspects of this concern should be delineated. First, how can banking regulations be structured so that
George J. Benston
core  

Corporate Tax System Complexity and Investment Sensitivity to Tax Policy Changes

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective policymakers must balance the demands of formulating a corporate tax system that raises revenue and spurs economic activity (e.g., investment) while promoting a “level playing field” across firms. Balancing these tradeoffs has likely caused tax systems to become more complex over time, increasing firms’ difficulty in understanding ...
HARALD AMBERGER, JOHN GALLEMORE, JARON WILDE   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Tax Audit in Turkiye: Simulation and Estimations Based on Kernel and Weight Functions

Chaos Theory and Applications
This research examines the use of kernel estimation and $FindDistribution$ methods in $Mathematica$ software to analyze the ratio of taxpayer audits to total taxpayers, focusing on two large populations: one with approximately 80,000 audits per 100,000 ...
Mehmet Niyazi Çankaya, Murat Aydın
doaj   +1 more source

Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Philibert Weenink   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Income: A Panel Study of 'Bracket Creep' [PDF]

This paper uses a panel of individual tax returns and the `bracket creep' as source of tax rate variation to construct instrumental variables estimates of the sensitivity of income to changes in tax rates.
Emmanuel Saez
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Explainable spatial machine learning for hedonic real estate modeling

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Accurately modeling rents and prices is a key challenge in real estate analysis. Traditional linear models may fail to capture complex non‐linear relationships, and spatial dependencies are often ignored in existing machine‐learning approaches.
Tim Gyger, Simona Hauri, Simon Bühlmann, Manuel Lehner, Jaron Schlesinger, Fabio Sigrist   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source