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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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A study on the local economy ripple effect due to general Industrial Estate Regeneration Project : focused on Jinju City's Sang-pyeong general industrial complex
Kim, Yeong; Shin, Jae-won - 2015
Today, the interest in the old industrial complex's regeneration project is heightened. That's because the existing industrial complex leading Korea's growth period has declined by external factor including economic recession and industrial structure change and because the need of regeneration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481870
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470938
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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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Will destination-based taxes be fully exploited when available? : an application to the U.S. commodity tax system
Agrawal, David R.; Mardan, Mohammed - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933901
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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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Housing busts and household mobility
Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel (contributor);  … - 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 —...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781789
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Local Government Taxes and Long-Run Economic Growth in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Stansel, Dean; Swaleheen, Mushfiq - 2008
This paper explores the factors that contribute to long-run economic growth in U.S. metropolitan areas, with particular … paper uses a new comprehensive data set for all U.S. metropolitan areas. We use panel data and metro fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212102
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892221
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Green Premium in the Primary and Secondary U.S. Municipal Bond Markets
Partridge, Candace - 2018
Green municipal bonds are a growing segment of the US municipal bond market. As they face increasing demand, there have been questions about the performance of green muni bonds relative to their conventional counterparts. In this paper, we perform yield curve analysis on a selection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912444