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Under current U.S. law, taxpayers can deduct up to 100 percent of their state income taxes from their adjusted gross income when calculating their federal income taxes. As a result, Iowans currently pay approximately $251 million less to the federal government than they would otherwise pay....
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This article discusses probably the most significant obstacle to the adoption of a consumption tax: the negative effects on existing wealth that the transition from the income tax to most forms of a consumption tax would have. The Congressional Budget Office in its 1997 study posed the question,...
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One of the reasons for the success of Fiji Nursing and Associates Credit Union (FNACU) was through innovation in governance by making amendments to the Credit Union Act to allow for expansion of their membership to paramedics and minors. Cooperatives including credit unions have played a...
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to banks, they make loans available to any borrower regardless of the intended use of the money as long as borrowers …
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This paper investigates the impact of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia, on participant credit behavior. The motivation of the research is derived from previous studies which indicate that conditional cash transfer programs have effects on households aside from...
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Rendering of the loans is one of the main activities of commercial banks, giving the largest income, but at the same … time raising the highest risk. Trying to avoid the risk of non-repayment of the loans, to insure the redemption of the loan … in time and to gain a profit as more as possible commercial banks should give the loans only to the reliable clients …
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At this final master’s work the market of loans to Lithuanian households is analyzed. Given the methods applied to … analyze credit markets in practice, the long-term and short-term relations between loans to Lithuanian households and other … transactions. Given the rapid growth of loans to Lithuanian households in recent years, the effect of external impulses coming …
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This exploratory issue paper begins with a statement by Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, which outlines what a well-functioning global financial system would achieve, followed by his dry statement that the current global financial system does none of these things. The paper...
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The pass-through of market interest rates to the financial conditions of households and firms represents an essential element in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. In this document, we analyze how this transmission is developing in the current hiking cycle in the euro area and in Spain,...
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The pass-through of market interest rates to the financial conditions of households and firms is an essential element in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. In this paper, we analyse how this transmission is playing out in the current hiking cycle in the euro area and in Spain, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377366