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

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 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....

2. Measuring the Fiscal Health of Municipalities

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 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...

3. Housing Markets and the Fiscal Health of US Central Cities

   Eventos
   Abril 17, 2017
   Cosponsored with the Urban Institute

   Cosponsored with the Urban Institute, this event will offer insights from two recent research projects funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that explore the links between shocks to urban housing markets and central cities’ finances.

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

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 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...

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

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 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...

6. Urban Property and Land Taxation in Argentina

   The Challenge of Decentralization
   Documentos de Trabalho
   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...

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

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 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...

8. Financial Sustainability Index

   A Self-Assessment Tool for Financial Sustainability
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2017
   Shayne Kavanagh, Mark Pisano, Shui Yan Tang, Michael F. McGrath, Doug Linkhart, Monika Hudson, and Erik Colon

   The Financial Sustainability Index is a companion document to the Financial Sustainability Framework. Both the Framework and the Index are built around six Leadership Strategies and eight...

9. Transition to the Property Tax in China

   A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2017
   David Dale-Johnson and Guozhong Zhu

   We use the dynamic general equilibrium approach to examine the potential impacts of the introduction of alternative tax regimes in China. This approach models housing demand and supply based on the...

10. State Government and Urban Revitalization

    How States Can Foster Stronger, More Inclusive Cities
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Abril 2017
    Alan Mallach

    There are few actions that an urban municipality can take to further revitalization which are not directly or potentially subject to state laws, policies, and practices; while this is widely known,...