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1. The Economic Implications of House Price Capitalization

   A Survey of an Emerging Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2011
   Christian A. L. Hilber

   House price capitalization has long been thought to be a means of testing for efficiency in the local public sector. The extent of house price capitalization itself may have important economic...

2. The Long Road to State Fiscal Recovery

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2011
   Donald Boyd

   The recent recession has been recognized as the worst in memory, and its effects are still being felt. Less well understood is the fact that this recession has been far worse for state governments...

3. Report from the President

   Land Value Capture—Practice and Prospects
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2011
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Land value capture is now a popular topic among practitioners of local public finance—in part because the recession-related decline in local government revenues has piqued interest in new revenue...

4. Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Zone Management

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2011
   Robert J. Nicholls

   In this paper, Robert J. Nicholls assesses the situation in other parts of the world, arguing that many cities, such as London, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Mumbai, are threatened by sea-level rise...

5. Scaling Up Conservation for Large Landscapes

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2011
   Jamie Williams

   With many funders and public partners seeking to focus on collaborative, landscape-scale conservation efforts, the land trust community has an excellent opportunity to leverage its good work by...

6. Revenue Diversification and the Financing of Large American Central Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2011
   Howard Chernick, Adam Langley, and Andrew Reschovsky

   The housing crisis and the Great Recession have placed tremendous fiscal pressure on the nation’s central cities. Cuts in state government fiscal assistance to their local governments, plus...

7. The Municipal Fiscal Crisis and Payments in Lieu of Taxes by Nonprofits

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2011
   Daphne A. Kenyon and Adam H. Langley

   PILOTs are voluntary payments made by tax-exempt nonprofits as a substitute for property taxes, but their revenue potential varies across municipalities because of large differences in the impact of...

8. Climate Change

   The Ultimate Tragedy of the Commons?
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Jouni Paavola

   In this paper, Jouni Paavola investigates the potential of institutional diversity and polycentric governance to deal effectively with climate change. Starting with the recognition that top-down...

9. TIF at a Turning Point

   Defining Debt Down
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2011
   Joan Youngman

   Tax increment financing (TIF) is the most important fiscal instrument for local development initiatives in this country. However, in many cases its growth has been accompanied by “moral hazard...

10. Cities and Infrastructure

    A Rough Road Ahead
    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2011
    Gregory K. Ingram and Anthony Flint

    As both the national economy and local government revenues recover, a key priority will be to balance expenditures between current services and longer-term investments in infrastructure.