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Diminishing Or Negating The Multiplier Effect: The Transfer of Consumer Dollars to Legalized Gambling: Should A Negative Socio-Economic “Crime Multiplier” be Included in Gambling C...

Kindt, John Warren - 2003

This analysis reviews whether the logical extension of the socio-economic costs caused by pathological gambling should … include a negative socio-economic (i.e., "crime") multiplier in gambling cost/benefit analyses. ... B. Legalized Gambling as … postulated that the multiplier effect was less when those same consumer dollars were spent in decriminalized gambling activities …

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Internationally, The 21st Century Is No Time for the United States to Be Gambling With the Economy: Taxpayers Subsidizing the Gambling Industry and the De Facto Elimination of All...

Kindt, John Warren - 2003

The Gambling Industry and Taxation by Terrorism ... Another concern was the target marketing to children via children …'s themes on video gambling machines leading to charges that the gambling industry had transformed the problem of Joe Camel into … "Joe Casino. ... The annual U.S. bankruptcy costs due to legalized gambling were at least $ 3 billion with 105,000 new …

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Legalized Gambling Activities as Subsidized by Taxpayers

Kindt, John Warren - 1995

An Analysis of the Arguments Used by Gambling Proponents to Convince Public Officials ... Despite claims that the local … attempt in Iowa to regulate gambling by enforcing betting limits on riverboats (regulation that was not advantageous to the … legalized gambling organizations) was met with not only the removal of two boats, but also a comment from one riverboat owner …

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State expenditure and fiscal illusion in Australia: A test of the revenue complexity, revenue elasticity and flypaper hypotheses

Dollery, Brian E.; Worthington, Andrew C. - 1995

Despite the federal structure of its constitution, no empirical study of fiscal illusion at the level of state expenditure has yet been undertaken in Australia. This paper seeks to go at least some way towards remedying the omission by subjecting the revenue-complexity, revenue-elasticity and...

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Simpler and Better? Revisit of a Time-Series Model of Forecasting in the Lodging Industry

Yost, Elizabeth A - 2011

The average hotel manager recognizes the criticality of forecasting. However, most managers are either frustrated by complex models researchers constructed or appalled by the amount of time and efforts to master the nuances of statistical theories. As hotel competition intensifies, managers...

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Price setting for local government service delivery : An exploration of key issues

Carnegie, Garry; Baxter, Claude - 2006

Local governments in Australia are constantly seeking to raise additional revenue to fund higher service demands. One key revenue source is service fees and charges, including fines. Premised on the notion of user pays, service fees and charges represent a significant proportion of total revenue...

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ACRE: A Revenue-Based Alternative to Price-Based Commodity Payment Programs

Cooper, Joseph C. - 2009

This paper develops a stochastic model for estimating the probability density function of the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE), a revenue-based commodity support payment that is offered under the 2008 Farm Act as an alternative to the traditional suite of price-based commodity payments, that...

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Payments under the Average Crop Revenue Program: Implications for Government Costs and Producer Preferences

Cooper, Joseph C. - 2009

This paper develops a stochastic model for comparing payments to U.S. corn producers under the U.S. Senate’s Average Crop Revenue Program (ACR) versus payments under the price-based marketing loan benefit and countercyclical payment programs. Using this model, the paper examines the...

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Incentives for Residential Water Conservation: Water Price, Revenue, and Consumer Equity in Florida

Rawls, Colin; Borisova, Tatiana; Berg, Sanford; … - 2010

Economic theory suggests that price incentives can be used to encourage water conservation in residential consumers. Conservation water rates are designed to send price signals that encourage households to reduce discretionary water use in the long term.However, it is not always clear that...

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Revenue implications to the Vietnamese government of using taxes to curb cigarette smoking

Doran, Christopher M.; Byrnes, Joshua M.; Higashi, Hideki; … - 2010

This study explores the impact on government taxation revenue from increasing excise on cigarettes in Vietnam. A dynamic population model is used to estimate future patterns (both prevalence and consumption) of tobacco use in Vietnam, with and without changes to tobacco excise for the period...

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