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1. Governance Structures and Financial Authority in Submunicipal Districts

   Implications for Fiscal Performance
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Robert J. Eger III and Richard C. Feiock

   Submunicipal governments are established or chartered by the state or city and operate like private corporations with oversight boards. They have the authority to adopt corporate names, make bylaws,...

2. Illustrating the Effects of Business Improvement Districts on Municipal Coffers

   Does a Rising Tide Compensate for the Secession of the Successful?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Leah Brooks and Rachel Meltzer

   Among the different types of submunicipal governments, business improvement districts (BIDs), have become increasingly popular in the United States and elsewhere. According to Leah Brooks and Rachel...

3. Does TIF Make It More Difficult to Manage Municipal Budgets?

   A Simulation Model and Directions for Future Research
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   David F. Merriman

   Tax increment financing districts (TIFs) are an approach that involves the designation of a special district to create a nexus between revenues and spending. TIF districts are authorized in almost...

4. Homeowners Associations and Their Impact on the Local Public Budget

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Ron Cheung

   The primary objective of homeowners associations (HOAs) is to provide their members with services that supplement the municipal provision. Access to HOA services is restricted to members only. In...

5. An Analysis of Alternative Revenue Sources for Local Governments

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   David L. Sjoquist and Andrew V. Stephenson

   In this paper, David L. Sjoquist and Andrew V. Stephenson evaluate the property tax, local sales tax, and local income tax using a standard set of criteria, including efficiency, equity, tax base...

6. How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben

   In this paper, Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben note that the revenue mix for local government changes frequently in response to economic shocks, policy shifts, and technological advances in tax...

7. China’s Land System

   Past, Present, and Future
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Dwight H. Perkins

   In this paper, Dwight H. Perkins discusses how the development of Chinese real estate markets has generated tensions between different segments of the population and between the government and...

8. Property Rights and Real Estate Privatization in Russia

   A Work in Progress
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Bertrand Renaud, Joseph K. Eckert, and R. Jerome Anderson

   Russia has attempted to develop property rights institutions to facilitate the development of private real estate markets since 1991. As of 2008 only one city (Veliky Novgorod) of 171 medium and...

9. Property Rights Created Under a Federalist Approach to Tradable Emissions Policy

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Dallas Burtraw and Richard Sweeney

   Property rights approaches can be employed to achieve environmental conservation. Two specific topics are examined here: tradable emission permits and conservation easements. The implementation of...

10. Private Conservation Easements

    Balancing Private Initiative and the Public Interest
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2009
    Gerald Korngold

    A commonly used property rights approach to conserving the environment is private conservation easements. Gerald Korngold discusses the benefits of this policy and proposes methods to mediate some of...