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1. Taxes and Economic Development

   An Update on the State of the Economics Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   Andrew Hanson

   There is a large literature examining the effect of taxes and tax concessions on local economic development, but the last comprehensive review of taxes and economic development was Wasylenko (1997),...

2. Finanzas municipales en México

   Por qué unos municipios recaudan más y gastan mejor
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2019
   Mónica Unda Gutiérrez, with collaboration from Humberto Morones Hernández

   El municipio promedio en México se ha hecho más dependiente de las transferencias fiscales y no ha aumentado sus niveles de inversión. Sin embargo, la imagen agregada disfraza la...

3. Residential Property Taxation in New York City

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Moses Gates

   This working paper sets forth the recent history and current structure of New York City’s residential property tax system, as well as large-scale inequities, possible points of needed reform,...

4. Protestas fiscales en Colombia, 2011–2015

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Olga Lucía Zapata Cortés and Marco Fidel Agudelo Cano

   Entre 2011 y 2015 se protestó en Colombia a causa del incremento del impuesto predial, el cobro de la contribución por valorización para la financiación de obras pú...

5. Recessionary Property Taxes

   Evidence from Maryland
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Andrew T. Hayashi

   Property taxes are often credited for stabilizing local government revenues during contractions, but this revenue stabilization can have destabilizing effects on households. In this paper I explore...

6. Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Samuel Banleman Biitir

   Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...

7. Doing Bad by Doing Good?

   An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban Informality
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe Dorna

   This paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...

8. 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study

   For Taxes Paid in 2016
   Otro
   Junio 2017
   Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence

   View the latest version of the Property Tax Comparison Study. As the largest source of revenue raised by local governments, a well-functioning property tax system is critical for promoting municipal...

9. The Tax Autonomy of Local Governments in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2019
   Andrew Reschovsky

   Statistics on the share of total government tax revenue raised by local governments provide an incomplete picture of local government taxing power. If higher level governments define the local tax...

10. Evaluation of Real Property Tax Abatements in Franklin County, Ohio

    Otro
    Mayo 2017
    Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam H. Langley, Bethany P. Paquin, and Robert W. Wassmer

    Update: An extension to this analysis was published in Economic Development Quarterly in 2020. Online appendices for that article are available here. This document presents the results of an...