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Record W2303294097

Business in Vancouver: the role of taxes and services

2007· dissertation· en· W2303294097 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Brianna Eileen Coughlin

Bibliographic record

VenueSummit (Simon Fraser University) · 2007
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicFiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProperty taxPublic economicsCentral business districtProperty (philosophy)BusinessBalance (ability)Public policyPopulationProperty marketProperty valueRegression analysisLocal propertyPublic transportMarketingEconomicsEconomic growthPolitical scienceFinanceEngineeringLawTax reformTransport engineeringSociologyPsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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This study explores the interaction between municipalities and local lobby groups, specifically the validity of demands made by Vancouver’s powerful business lobby regarding local property tax rate impacts. The study uses regression analysis to examine why some GVRD municipalities might have more businesses than others. Results suggest that population and residential property taxes have significant and strong effects on the number of businesses in a municipality where property values, access to rapid transit and big box stores do not. Where the business lobby’s key concern of commercial property taxes are shown to be statistically significant, the effect on location is negligible and these findings reduce the validity of their demands for policy change. Based on this analysis, the study suggests that the City of Vancouver not give in to the demands of business and instead conduct an information and public consultation campaign to better balance public input on this issue.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.685
Threshold uncertainty score0.896

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.188
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2007
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