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A Look at the California Records Act and Its Exemptions
No full textAuthors: Edward M. Schaffer, et al
Replication Data for: "Who’s afraid of more ambitious climate policy? How distributional implications shape policy support and compensatory preferences"
No full textThis repository contains the replication material for the analysis reported in Schaffer, L. M. "Who’s afraid of more ambitious climate policy? How distributional implications shape policy support and compensatory preferences" . Forthcoming in Environmental Politics.
Abstract: Nation states need to strengthen domestic climate policies to address global climate change. As more ambitious climate policy shapes the material interests of different societal groups, distributional conflict about who wins and loses will likely intensify over the coming years. I use the recent complete revision of the Swiss CO2 law as an example of a change towards more ambitious climate policy and experimentally test whether distributional implications resulting from this policy change affect both people's policy support and redistributive preferences. I establish that learning about negative impacts on some societal groups significantly decreases support, while information about groups profiting also increases support. Moreover, being informed about the negative consequences of ambitious climate policy makes people more likely to support redistributive schemes, even if they are not personally affected. These results show the centrality of distributional implications for the political feasibility of progressive climate policy
Disputatio inauguralis medica, de soporosis affectibus in genere; atque in specie de Caro
No full textquam ... pro summis in arte medica honoribus, privilegiis ac insignibus doctoralibus solemniter legitimeque consequendis, publicae ... & placidae disquisitioni committit Adamus Schafferus, Hervordia Westphalus. Ad diem 15. Martii Ann. M DC XLIIIEnth. 42 ThesenDiss. med. Basel, 164
Analogue resolution in a model of the Schaffer collaterals
No full text. We have analytically and numerically solved the mutual information expression for a quantitative model of the Schaffer collateral projections from the CA3 to the CA1 pyramidal cells within the hippocampus. Here we discuss in particular results from the model on the effect of analogue coding levels in the Schaffer collaterals, and the fact that this depends upon the sparseness of firing rate distributions in the hippocampus. 1 Introduction Recent advances in techniques for the formal analysis of neural networks [1, 2, 3, 4] have introduced the possibility of detailed quantitative analyses of real brain circuitry. This approach is particularly appropriate for regions such as the hippocampus, which show distinct structure and for which the microanatomy is relatively simple and well known [5]. The Schaffer collateral model describes, in a simplified form, the connections from the N CA3 pyramidal cells to the M CA1 pyramidal cells. Most Schaffer collateral axons project into the stratum ..
Audrey M. Schaffer (interviewed by Dou Dou)
No full textInterview conducted with an MIT alumna as part of the Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA (Association of MIT Alumnae) Oral History Project. The purpose of the project is to document the life histories of women graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The enterprise sector and emergence of the Polish fiscal crisis, 1990-91
No full textThe author analyzes the causes of the collapse of profitability in 1991 of the Polish enterprise sector. He explores how it affected the government budget and assesses the forecasts of enterprise sector performance used to prepare the government's 1990 and 1991 budgets. About half of the drop in profitability he attributes to the decrease in the inflation rate and the consequent decrease in the inflation bias in profits that results from historical cost accounting. He attributes most of the rest of the collapse in profitability to higher labor costs and higher amortization allowances. When wages are endogenized in a simple model, nearly the entire collapse of profitability is explained by the changes in inflation bias and amortization allowances. The decrease in the inflation bias and the increase in amortization allowances caused profits, and thus profit taxes, to fall, freeing up cash that could be spent on wages, causing profits and profit taxes to fall even further. This loss in government revenues was offset by increased revenues from wage taxes, which were in turn offset by an increase in wage indexed government spending, notably on pensions. As a result of all these changes, the government deficit increased about 4 to 5 percent of GDP - about half of the fiscal swing between 1990 and 1991. Policy options recommended for increasing tax revenues include: increasing the turnover tax rate and introducing the value added tax that will replace it at rates that maintain the increased level of revenue; increasing the social security tax rate; and maintaining, but not raising, the historical cost based profit tax, an automatic stabilizer. An obvious alternative to the profit tax based on historical cost accounting is to redress 1991 mistake, the indexing of amortization deductions. The author recommends drastically reducing or even abolishing amortization deductions for state owned enterprises for fixed capital acquired before 1990 (before the start of the transition from socialism). It is odd that these firms are given a tax break on top of the free use of state owned capital. If anything, they should be paying for the use of the capital.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management
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