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1. Metropolitan Cities in the National Fiscal and Institutional Structure

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Paul Smoke

   In this paper, Paul Smoke points out that an important yet neglected issue in the study of urban public finance in developing countries is how urban and metropolitan governments are situated in the...

2. Metropolitan Governance and Finance in São Paulo

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Deborah L. Wetzel

   With a population of 11.2 million residents, São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, and the world’s seventh largest city by population. The city is...

3. The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Roy W. Bahl

   The theory and practice of providing government services in metropolitan areas are subjects that have attracted a great deal of attention in the industrial countries but have been largely ignored in...

4. How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 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...

5. Financing Cities

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2010
   Robert P. Inman

   Cities and their surrounding suburban neighborhoods are economic growth agents. Not only do they provide public goods to satisfy the needs of urban residents, but they also supply local...

6. Metropolitan Public Finance

   An Overview
   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack

   This paper by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack is based on their observation that not all big cities are very rich, but they are all, by definition, big, and most of them are also rich relative to...

7. The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax

   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   Grant Driessen and Steven Sheffrin

   For U.S. cities, the property tax is the single largest source of own-source revenue, but the extent to which different cities rely on property tax revenues varies significantly. Grant Driessen and...

8. Local Nonproperty Revenues

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

   In this paper, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez focuses on the current theory and practice of non-property tax assignments to local urban governments in developing and developed countries. Although the...

9. Foreclosures and Neighborhoods

   The Shape and Impacts of the U.S. Mortgage Crisis
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   Dan Immergluck

   This paper explores the root cause of municipal fiscal stress and documents the effects of foreclosures in the United States. The author, Dan Immergluck, examines the household- and neighborhood-...

10. Nontraditional Public School Funding Sources

    Trends, Issues, and Outlook
    Artigos de Conferências
    Maio 2014
    Henry Coleman

    This paper by Henry A. Coleman examines a wide range of nontraditional revenue sources, including local-option personal income and general sales taxes, user charges and fees, gaming revenues, private...