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Should Utah eliminate the sales tax on food?
Utah legislators are once again debating whether to eliminate the sales tax on food, in hopes of giving a break to lower-income households. But Eccles School professor Adam Looney argues [...]
Prosecutor Elections and Police Accountability
Prosecutors play an important role in holding police accountable by determining whether or not an officer has broken the law.
Eccles Business Survey Report, March 2021
In March the economy moved into Boom territory with revenues higher than 2019 levels and high expectations for future revenue growth. Businesses report X% higher revenues than at this [...]
Eccles Economic Survey Report, Feb. 2021
Consumer confidence in the Utah economy in the near future grew in February. Current expectations of spending, income, and savings over the next three months increased compared to expectations [...]
Applied Game Theory
In this chapter we put forward a framework for using game theory to study politics. In our view, the rigorous analysis of strategic interactions can make a number of [...]
Dispute Resolution Institutions and Strategic Militarization
A voluminous literature seeks to understand which institutions effectively resolve disputes that might otherwise lead to military conflict. The emergence of a dispute is usually taken as the starting [...]
A Risk Sharing Proposal for Student Loans
Many borrowers have difficulty repaying their federal student loans, particularly at certain institutions. This paper proposes an institutional accountability system that is intended to help align [...]
Measuring Loan Outcomes at Postsecondary Institutions:
Cohort Repayment Rates as an Indicator of Student Success and Institutional Accountability Low- and middle-income college borrowers often struggle with economic opportunity and loan burdens after leaving school. However, [...]
Locked in by Leverage: Job Search during the Housing Crisis
This paper examines how housing market distress affects job search. Using data from a leading online job search platform during the Great Recession, we find that job seekers in [...]