International Tax and Public Finance has published a paper by Riemer Faber and Pierre Koning in which they develop a methodology to estimate the indirect costs of spending a conditional block grant. They estimate that Dutch municipalities have to add about 90 cents from their own resources to spend 1 euro of a grant for welfare-to-work programs. To read more, click here.
A tale of two stakeholder groups in regulating healthcare AI
Despite significant spending on healthcare in the US, the industry is slow to adopt AI technology that can cut costs and improve efficiency. In this CPI...