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Many US states have set ambitious renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that require utilities to switch from fossil fuels toward renewables. RPS increases the renewables capacity, bond issuance, maturity, and yield spreads of investor-owned utilities compared to municipal producers that are...
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We analyze the short and long-run performance of firms that were differentially affected by a new tax on dividends in … financial year-end dates to causally identify the policy impact. Consistent with intertemporal tax arbitrage, immediately …
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A rent guarantee insurance (RGI) policy makes a limited number of rent payments to the landlord on behalf of an insured tenant unable to pay rent due to a negative income or health expenditure shock. We introduce RGI in a rich quantitative equilibrium model of housing insecurity and show it...
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We analyze the financial performance of a hypothetical portfolio of 120 mRNA vaccine candidates in the preclinical stage targeting 11 emerging infectious diseases. We calibrate the simulation parameters with input from domain experts in mRNA technology and an extensive literature review. We find...
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We provide estimates of the impact and long-run elasticities of tax base with respect to tax rates for four large U … initial increase in local tax rates. A significant negative impact (current period) effect of a balanced budget increase in … city property tax rates on city property base is interpreted as a capitalization effect and suggests that marginal …
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options. In this paper, we examine the extent to which tax policy has influenced the composition of executive compensation …, and discuss the implications of rising stock-based pay for tax policy. We begin by describing the tax rules for executive … pay in detail and analyzing how changes in various tax rates affect the tax advantages of stock options relative to salary …
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$2.56 billion more than the $4.79 billion they raise in tax revenues. These taxes are raised from wireless consumers and … taxes. Prospective taxes will impose an efficiency loss of $0.72-$1.14 per additional dollar of tax revenue raised …
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Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
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effect of an SSB tax on the consumption and BMI of youth in Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, which we compare … to Maldives, another island nation in the Indian Ocean which did not implement an SSB tax during the time of our data …. Results of difference-in-differences models indicate that the tax in Mauritius had no detectable impact on the consumption of …
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Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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