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We argue that anti-density zoning increases black residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas by reducing the quantity of affordable housing in white jurisdictions. Drawing on census data and land regulation indicators compiled by Pendall, we estimate a series of regression models to...
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As the 2008 financial crisis spread globally, it became widely apparent that an essential ingredient to preventing future systemic crises was reform of the regulation of financial markets. Two ambitious initiatives for regulatory reform are the European Union's European System of Financial...
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In recent years, several U.S. government agencies have pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their 'responsibility determinations' (reviews of, among other things, contractor representations and certifications,...
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Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
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This paper analyses the partnership-based outsourcing model of service transformation in USA local government, focusing … on the city of Sandy Springs which became widely known for its large-scale ‘turnkey’ outsourcing of provision of its … which to reassess Sandy Springs’ use of turnkey outsourcing to achieve significant cost savings and improve services. The …
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This paper empirically investigates the effect of fiscal decentralization on public safety, which is widely taken as an … of the decentralization effect. In a decentralized setting, the fiscal competition between jurisdictions motivates local … 2009, we find the fiscal decentralization generally lowers the crime rate, but the effect is smaller for mobile crime than …
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