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How much are you willing to pay to avoid lockdowns? Evidence from the real estate market

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, numerous countries implemented lockdowns. In Victoria, Australia, a unique two‐tier system was employed, segregating areas with a Ring of Steel boundary and imposing additional restrictions within. This study focuses on the impact of lockdowns on housing prices and rents, exploring whether people are ...
Jian Liang, Chyi Lin Lee, Qiang Li
wiley   +1 more source

Household Ownership of Variable Annuities [PDF]

open access: yesTax Policy and the Economy, 2006
Variable annuities have been one of the most rapidly growing financial products of the last two decades. Between 1996 and 2004, nominal sales of variable annuities in the United States more than doubled, from $51 billion to $130 billion. Variable annuities now account for almost two-thirds of annuity sales.
Jeffrey Brown, James Poterba
openaire   +2 more sources

Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

Why Settle for the Status Quo? A Critical Assessment of Pension Liability Measurement Under IFRS and US GAAP

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
Relevance and faithful representation are identified by standard‐setters as fundamental qualitative characteristics for useful accounting information. We critically assess whether current pension measurement guidance under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) results in pension ...
Divya Anantharaman, Darren Henderson
wiley   +1 more source

The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Step into action: how reminders shape engagement in fitness apps

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract Regular exercise offers well‐documented health benefits, and mobile applications are increasingly used to promote physical activity. In this study, we conduct a large‐scale randomized controlled trial with 20,187 users of the WeWard app in France to evaluate the effectiveness of different message framings and intervention durations on app ...
Beatrice Braut   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reference dependence and lottery participation

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract We assume that lottery participants are poor relative to their target income. Reference dependence with loss aversion can render the marginal utility of income non‐monotonic in line with the Friedman–Savage hypothesis. As a result, lottery participation can be rationalized without invoking probability weighting.
Robertas Zubrickas
wiley   +1 more source

Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation оf Loan – Models оf Variable Principal Repaid

open access: yesActa Economica, 2007
In this paper is presented the account of evaluation of loan for case when the loan is amortized of variable principal repaid. It is presented two cases: a) the account of evaluation of loan after the t-th payment of annuity and b) the account of ...
Миливој Крчмар, PhD
doaj  

Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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