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1. Predicting Municipal Fiscal Distress

   Aspiration or Reality?
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2018
   Tracy Gordon

   Cities are where people come together to work, live, and thrive. Cities also face a host of fiscal challenges, many of which were laid bare in the Great Recession. Given these challenges,...

2. 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....

3. 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...

4. Development Tax in France as a Tool for Land Value Capture and Social Equity

   Case Studies on Bordeaux and Strasbourg
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Sonia Guelton, Agnes Pouillaude, and David Rosen

   In a context of severe pressure on public budgets, aging urban infrastructure, and increasing pressures of urbanization, municipalities, and metropolitan regions on five continents are looking at...

5. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Março 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

6. 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...

7. 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...

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. A Framework for a Financial Sustainability Index

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2017
   Shayne Kavanagh, Mark Pisano, Shui Yan Tang, Michael F. McGrath, Doug Linkhart, Monika Hudson, and Erik Colon

   In order to navigate the many challenges local governments face today, leaders will need new and better systems of governance and decision making. These new systems must help government meet its...