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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. Complex Debt for Financing Infrastructure

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Jeffrey I. Chapman

   In this paper, Jeffrey Chapman, professor at Arizona State University, examines certificates of participation, community facility district debt, and tax credit bonds. The certificate of participation...

6. 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...

7. 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...

8. China’s Local Public Finance in Transition

   Libros
   Noviembre 2010
   Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man and Yu-Hung Hong

   China's economy has developed rapidly since the economic reforms in 1978, but public finance reforms have proceeded more slowly. This book looks at three major policy options addressing the...

9. Municipal Revenues and Land Policies

   Libros
   Mayo 2010
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   Based on the proceedings of Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s fourth annual cross-disciplinary land policy conference, this volume collects scholarly work by a wide range of experts in land...

10. The Property Tax and Local Autonomy

    Libros
    Marzo 2010
    Edited by Michael E. Bell, David Brunori and Joan Youngman

    Some of the nation’s leading scholars of government and public finance provide their views on the consequences of a declining property tax base. They show local government officials and others...