2018 International Conference on Municipal Fiscal Health – Program Materials
Session Presentations
Plenary: Creating Inclusive and Equitable Cities: Launch of Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) Cities Report
Paolo Veneri, OECD
Sock-Yong Phang, Singapore Management University
Manuel Velarde, Municipality of San Isidro, Lima, Peru
Moderated Panel: Decline & Regeneration: Challenges and Opportunities of Fiscally Distressed Cities
Jeffrey DeWitt, District of Columbia
Research Presentations: Measuring the Fiscal Health of Municipalities & Developing Warning Systems for Local Fiscal Distress
Bruce McDonald, North Carolina State University
Tracy Gordon, The Urban Institute
Moderated Panel: US Tax Reform and Its Impact on State and Local Government Finance
Jane Campbell, National Development Council
Andrew Reschovsky, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Research Presentations: Evaluating Municipal Fiscal Systems
Howard Chernick, Hunter College, City University of New York
Michael Overton, University of Idaho
Moderated Panel: Meeting the Global Infrastructure Gap
Michael Bennon, Stanford Global Projects Center
Anaclaudia Rossbach, Cities Alliance
Joyce Man, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
Research Presentations: The Role of Land Based Revenues in Municipal Revenue Frameworks
Cynthia Goytia, Torcuato Di Tella University
Martim Smolka, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Moderated Panel: Revitalizing America’s Legacy Cities
Alan Mallach, Center for Community Progress
Workshop: Government Finance Officers Association Fiscal Sustainability Index
Shayne Kavanagh and Vincent Reitano, GFOA
Workshop: United Nations Capital Development Fund Global Lessons in Sustainable Finance
David Jackson, United Nations Capital Development Fund
Off-site Mobile Workshop: Live Case Study of Detroit – From Bankruptcy to Revitalization
Detroit Mobile Tour Highlights
Moderated Panel: Fiscal Challenges Posed by Climate Change
David Levy, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Municipal Fiscal Health & Rural Communities
Craig Maher, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Moderated Panel: Intergovernmental Transfer Systems & Their Role in Municipal Revenues
Diego Aulestia Valencia, IDE – Universidad de Los Hemisferios
Workshop: University of Chicago U.S. Public Finance
Michael Belsky, University of Chicago
Workshop: Land and Urban Development
Ciro Biderman, Getulio Vargas Foundation
Antonio Azuela, Social Research Institute at UNAM
Plenary: Charting the Course for the Future: Municipal Finance that Enables Sustainable Development
Robert Lewis-Lettington, UN-Habitat
Video: How Habitat III Can Ripple Across the Urban Planning World
