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International spillovers from climate policy

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Francesca Diluiso and Aydan Dogan To achieve the emissions reduction targets outlined in The Paris Agreement , many economies have started implementing various types of climate policies. This blog post explores the spillover effects due to the implementation of climate policy in a single country.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

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When and how to cite credit exceptions A policy on credit exceptions can address many factors that can lead financial institutions to diverge from loan policy and miss signs of potential trouble. Takeaway 3 A credit exception policy should spell out what one is, when it can be used, and how to clear it.

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Commonwealth Bank CEO labels Greens’ tax policy ‘insidious populism’ after firm’s $9.8bn profit

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Appearing before a parliamentary inquiry on Thursday , the head of Australia’s biggest bank appeared frustrated by questions about payment surcharges and corporate relationships and abruptly turned his attention to address criticism of big business.

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Monetary and fiscal policy in interwar Britain

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Policy, meanwhile, was pulled in multiple directions by multiple objectives – employment, price and financial stability and debt sustainability. Asking what role macroeconomic policy played in interwar Britain is not a new topic, so why revisit it? What do I do?

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When One State’s Tax-Exempt Necessity Is Another’s High-Tax Discretionary Purchase

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Sales taxes empower governments to maintain critical public services, but they can also make medical essentials too expensive for those who need them. Campaigns against taxing obligatory items are spreading across the United States, forcing states to rethink their revenue generation decisions. Sales taxes’ price tags.

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China Turns To Tax Policy To Bolster Entrepreneurs

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China introduced new tax initiatives aimed at bolstering the nation’s entrepreneurs, according to local news reports on Friday (May 4). Vice finance minister Cheng Lihua introduced seven new tax policies during a press conference Friday, with the goal of saving small businesses $9.45

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Beyond emissions: the interplay of macroprudential regulation and climate policy

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Francesca Diluiso, Barbara Annicchiarico and Marco Carli While climate change is often seen as a long-term concern, climate mitigation policies can have different short-term effects, since they affect the transmission mechanism of conventional macroeconomic shocks.