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1. An Examination of Sales Ratio Data and Sources Incorporated into the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2020
   Bob DeBoer

   The 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, jointly produced by the Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence (MCFE) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, uses sales ratios to more accurately...

2. Strategic Interaction in Urban Infrastructure Finance

   A Spatial Panel Econometric Analysis of Chinese Prefecture-Level Cities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2020
   Can Chen, Kenneth A. Kriz, and Shuanglin Lin

   This research represents one of the first attempts to empirically examine strategic interaction in urban infrastructure expenditures on capital construction and maintenance in China. Drawing upon the...

3. How States Provide Cities with General Revenue

   An Analysis of Unrestricted State Aid
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2020
   Amanda Kass, Michael Pagano, and Farhad Kaab Omeyr

   Municipal governments in the United States generate revenues from their own sources (their authority to charge for services and collect taxes); other governments (intergovernmental revenue); and, by...

4. Methodology Used to Create the Fiscally Standardized Cities Database

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2020
   Adam H. Langley

   This paper details the methodology used to create the fiscally standardized cities (FiSCs) database. The data are available for 212 U.S. cities for the 1977–2017 period on the Lincoln Institute...

5. Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper uses a specially constructed data base on city finance that accounts for the revenues and spending of the constituent governments that provide public services in cities—municipal...

6. The Property Tax in Latvia

   System Structure and Current Challenges
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Sarmite Barvika

   The aim of this paper is to analyze the current state and trends of real property taxation policy in Latvia. Particular importance is given to the general statistical and historical overview of real...

7. Contribución de mejoras en América Latina

   Experiencias, desafíos y oportunidades
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Julio 2020
   Óscar Armando Borrero Ochoa y Julieth Katterine Rojas Ruiz

   Uno de los problemas principales de los municipios latinoamericanos es la falta de recursos para financiar obras públicas, especialmente en cuestiones de movilidad y transporte masivo. Aqu...

8. How Scenario Planning Affects Regional and Local Plans and Planning Practices

   An Empirical Analysis
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2020
   Arnab Chakraborty and Stephen Averill Sherman

   This project investigated how regional scenario efforts can shape regional and local plans. Through document analysis of scenario efforts and selected plans in six regions, plus key informant...

9. Special Assessment Districts and the Financing of Infrastructure in South Africa

   The Innovative Use of a Special Rating Area in Claremont, Cape Town
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2020
   Willard Matiashe and Arthur Germond

   Since 2000, special rating areas (SRAs), also known as Special Assessment Districts and/or city improvement districts (CIDs), have been used to revive urban nodes across the City of Cape Town (Cape...

10. Housing Affordability in Chinese Cities

    Documentos de trabajo
    Abril 2020
    Li Sun

    Over the past decade, house prices have kept soaring in Chinese cities, making housing affordability one of the biggest social and political issues in urban China. Existing research on housing...