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Superstar Cities, Inequality And Housing Policy, S Y Phang

PHANG Sock Yong

Income and wealth inequality have been constantly debated, especially in recent years. Most studies, such as the recent work by Thomas Piketty, compare inequality across countries and over time. National inequality measures, however, mask considerable variations across cities within the same country. A country’s biggest and most economically dynamic cities also tend to have the largest inequality gaps. These cities – what Joseph Gyourko calls “Superstar Cities” – are also distinguished by their high housing prices. Migration in and out of cities limits the extent to which Superstar Cities can use local redistributive policies (including housing policies) to reduce inequality. …

Managing Private Vehicles In Asian Cities, S Y Phang

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.

Your Friends And Neighbors: Localized Economic Development And Criminal Activity, Matthew Freedman, Emily Owens

Matthew Freedman

We exploit a sudden shock to demand for a subset of low-wage workers generated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program in San Antonio, Texas to identify the effects of localized economic development on crime. We use a difference-in-difference methodology that takes advantage of variation in BRAC’s impact over time and across neighborhoods. We find that appropriative criminal behavior increases in neighborhoods where a fraction of residents experienced increases in earnings. This effect is driven by residents who were unlikely to be BRAC beneficiaries, implying that criminal opportunities are important in explaining patterns of crime.

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The Plight Of The Kimberley: Jobs Or Culture?, Stuart Murray

Stuart Murray

No abstract provided.

Probabilistic Logic For Belief Nets, K. Andersen, John Hooker

John Hooker

We describe how to combine probabilistic logic and Bayesian networks to obtain a new frame-work ("Bayesian logic") for dealing with uncertainty and causal relationships in an expert system. Probabilistic logic, invented by Boole, is a technique for drawing inferences from uncertain propositions for which there are no independence assumptions. A Bayesian network is a "belief net" that can represent complex conditional independence assumptions. We show how to solve inference problems in Bayesian logic by applying Benders decomposition to a nonlinear programming formulation. We also show that the number of constraints grows only linearly with the problem size for a large …

Multilateral Development Banks And The International Monetary Fund, Paul Clements

Paul Clements

No abstract provided.

Don't Blame Faculty For High Tuition: The Annual Report On The Economic Status Of The Profession, 2003-04, Ronald Ehrenberg

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

[Excerpt] The bottom line is that although faculty and staff salary in-creases obviously contribute to increases in tuition, other factors have played more important roles during the last quarter century. These factors include the escalating costs of benefits for all employees, reductions in state support of public institutions, growing institutional financial-aid costs, expansion of the science and research infrastructure at research universities, and the increasing costs of information technology. If tuition and fee increases had been held to the rate of average faculty salary increases during this period, average tuition and fees would be substantially lower today in both the …

From Eastside To Westside Tax Allocation Districts: The Case Of Economic Redevelopment Financing In The City Of Atlanta, Georgia, Usa, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

News Media And Environmental Policy: The Case Of The Niger Delta Crises, Andrew Ewoh, Onimi Wilcox

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Community Improvement Districts: Perspectives On Benefits, Costs, And Risk From Georgia Cid Executive Directors And Their Board Members, Andrew Ewoh, Kristin Rome

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

An Exploratory Analysis Of At-Will Employment In The State Of Georgia, Andrew Ewoh, Olayinka Tejuoso

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Corruption, Public Integrity And Globalization: A Comparative Analysis Of Trends In South-Eastern European Nations, Andrew Ewoh, Ani Matei

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Masters Programs In Public Administration: A Comparative Study Of European Union And The United States, Andrew Ewoh, Lucica Matei

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Public-Private Partnership In Atlanta And Houston Metropolitan Areas Of The United States, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Resource Control And The Rise Of Militia In The Nigerian Delta Region, Andrew Ewoh, Chux Ibekwe

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Nigeria Media Coverage Of The Niger Delta Crises And Agenda Setting, Andrew Ewoh, Onimi Wilcox

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Crisis Opportunism: Bailouts And E-Scads In The Gfc, Judy Johnston, Alexander Kouzmin, Kym Thorne, Stephen Kelly

Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly

As a response to the junk debt-inspired global economic crisis, governments, with supra-national organizational approval, have appropriated billions of taxpayers dollars for bailouts, have set up special funds and underwritten depositors savings in the desperate hope of alleviating the threat of rapid, economic decline and systemic destruction of value. Whether these governments have a democratic mandate for such unprecedented action is debatable. More importantly, though, is whether such decisions amount to good re-regulatory policy. First, it is known that some of the bailout money to large corporations has been squandered by oligarchic recipients and appropriated by them in their own …

Hong Kong And Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Public-Nonprofit Partnerships In The Delivery Of Public Goods And Services: Opening Session Speech, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Through The Doughnut Hole: Reimagining The Social Security Contribution And Benefit Base Limit, Patricia E. Dilley

Patricia E Dilley

ABSTRACT The Obama campaign proposal to address Social Security's future financing shortfalls by increasing the Social Security tax base limit only for those making more than $250,000 per year raises the broader question of the function of the base limit from a Social Security program perspective. The public supports increasing the wage base above all other possible avenues for solving long term financing issues, but the problems with the Obama "doughnut hole" proposal are substantial from several perspectives. In this article, the author suggests that the function of the base limit be reconsidered, and the benefit accrual function of the …

Public-Private Collaborations: The Case Of Atlanta Metro Community Improvement District Alliance. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh, Ulf Zimmermann

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Civil Society Organizations And Policy Process In Tajikistan: An Exploratory Analysis, Andrew Ewoh, Faviziya Nazarova, Rhonda Hill

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

A Case Study Of The Enterprise Zone Program: “Ez” Avenue To Minority Economic Development?, Sherri Wallace

Sherri L. Wallace

Life On "Ez" Street: Linking Community Economic Development To The Empowerment Zones And Enterprise Community Policy Goals, Sherri Wallace

Sherri L. Wallace