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Tax Evasion and Ethics : A Comparative Study of the USA and Four Latin American Countries

McGee, Robert W.; López Paláu, Silvia - 2007

The authors distributed a survey instrument to university students in Colombia, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the United States to determine their views on the ethics of tax evasion. Participants were asked to indicate the extent of their agreement or disagreement with each...

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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth: evidence from U.S. counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009

and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose governments per square mile have a positive impact on metropolitan …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …

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The Metropolitan Life : a study in business growth

James, Marquis - 1947

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Housing busts and household mobility

Ferreira, Fernando; Gyourko, Joseph; Tracy, Joseph - 2008

Using two decades of American Housing Survey data from 1985 to 2005, we estimate the influence of negative home equity and rising mortgage interest rates on household mobility. We find that both factors lead to lower, not higher, mobility rates over time. The effects are economically large -...

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Housing busts and household mobility

Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel (contributor); … - 2008

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Housing policies in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the United States : lessons learned

Hilber, Christian; Schöni, Olivier - 2016

enormous variation in the tightness of land use restrictiveness across metropolitan areas. The key policy concern across the … policy backfires in prosperous and tightly land use regulated metropolitan areas - "superstar cities" - because in these … higher-income households in metropolitan areas with lax land use regulation. The net effect of the policy on homeownership …

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Tax gradient : spatial aspects of fiscal competition

Agrawal, David R. - 2015

State borders create a discontinuous tax treatment of retail sales. In a Nash game, local tax rates will be higher on the low-state-tax side of a border. Local taxes will decrease from the nearest high-tax border and increase from the low-tax border. Using driving time from state borders and all...

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A new look at second liens

Lee, Donghoon; Mayer, Christopher J.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2012

We use data from credit reports and deed records to better understand the extent to which second liens contributed to the housing crisis by allowing buyers to purchase homes with small down-payments. At the top of the housing market, second liens were quite prevalent: As many as 45 percent of...

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Will Destination-Based Taxes Be Fully Exploited When Available? An Application to the U.S. Commodity Tax System

Agrawal, David R. - 2019

We develop a tax competition model that allows for the setting of both an origin-based and a destination-based commodity tax rate in the presence of avoidance and evasion. In the presence of evasion, jurisdictions will give cross-border shoppers tax preferential treatment, thus not fully...

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The Fiscal Impacts of Urban Sprawl : Evidence from U.S. County Areas

Goodman, Christopher B. - 2017

This paper examines the fiscal impacts of urban development patterns in the United States. Previous studies have indicated that low-density, spatially expansive development patterns are costly to provide public services leading to higher per capita expenditures. However, theory would suggest...

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