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1. Reinventing Development Regulations

   Libros
   Octubre 2017
   Jonathan Barnett and Brian W. Blaesser

   “Many writers have identified the deficiencies in traditional zoning and regulatory frameworks in the United States, but Jonathan Barnett and Brian Blasser offer solutions that tweak and bend...

2. Property Tax in Africa

   Status, Challenges, and Prospects
   Libros
   Junio 2017
   Edited by Riël Franzsen and William McCluskey

   “This one-of-a-kind study is an indispensable source for academics and policy makers who seek to explore the virtues of the property tax. The relevance of this volume clearly transcends the...

3. Asymmetry in Municipal Government Responses in Growing vs. Shrinking Counties with Focus on Capital Spending

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2017
   Biswa Das and Mark Skidmore 

   Spending by municipal governments in the United States increased by more than 250 percent between 1972 and 2012, faster than population growth (48 percent increase) and growth in median household...

4. Investing in Collections Software to Allow for Monthly Property Tax Payments

   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2017
   Vincent Reitano

   Local governments across the United States rely on property taxes for a significant share of revenue. Administration of the property tax typically includes annual or semi-annual collection. This...

5. Urban Property and Land Taxation in Argentina

   The Challenge of Decentralization
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2017
   Cynthia Goytia and Marcela Cristini

   The unsatisfactory operation of the fiscal federalism in Argentina has resulted in new reform initiatives to reduce the imbalances between collections of own resources and expenditures between the...

6. Evaluating the Effect of Differences in Revenue Systems on the Fiscal Health of Large U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2017
   Howard Chernick

   Sustainable fiscal health is crucial for cities. To do this, they must be able to generate flows of revenue over time sufficient to pay for needed services, even as the cost of those services grows....

7. Indicadores de Gestão Fiscal e de Qualidade do Gasto nos Municípios Brasileiros

   Impactos da Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal nas Prefeituras
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2017
   José Roberto Rodrigues Afonso, Kleber Pacheco de Castro, Marcos Hecksher, Alexandre Sobreira Cialdini, and Fabrício Marques Santos

   Com o intuito de tentar captar o comportamento incentivado pela LRF no âmbito dos governos locais, este trabalho visou construir e analisar indicadores de performance para observar a tend...

8. The Impact of Industrial Diversification and Clustering on the Volatility of City Budgets

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2017
   Michael Overton and Robert Bland

   Budget volatility—the difference between expected and actual revenues and expenditures—is a critical component to sustaining a local government’s fiscal health. While scholars have...

9. Measuring the Fiscal Health of Municipalities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2017
   Bruce McDonald III

   One of the difficulties faced in the effective and efficient management of public organizations is the understanding of when the organization is experiencing financial distress. Administrators and...

10. Exploring the Linkage between Economic Base, Revenue Growth, and Revenue Stability in Large Municipal Governments

    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 2017
    Michael Overton and Robert Bland

    The Great Recession had far-reaching consequences for the fiscal health of municipal governments. The deeply weakened economy has undermined the capacity of local governments to meet their financial...