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Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities
Documentos de TrabalhoJulho 2020This paper uses a specially constructed data base on city finance that accounts for the revenues and spending of the constituent governments that provide public services in cities—municipal...
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Methodology Used to Create the Fiscally Standardized Cities Database
Documentos de TrabalhoSetembro 2020This paper details the methodology used to create the fiscally standardized cities (FiSCs) database. The data are available for 212 U.S. cities for the 1977–2017 period on the Lincoln Institute...
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An Examination of Sales Ratio Data and Sources Incorporated into the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study
Documentos de TrabalhoDezembro 2020Bob DeBoerThe 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, jointly produced by the Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence (MCFE) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, uses sales ratios to more accurately...
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Property Tax Delinquency in the United States
Documentos de TrabalhoMarço 2020How 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...
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How States Provide Cities with General Revenue
An Analysis of Unrestricted State AidDocumentos de TrabalhoSetembro 2020Amanda Kass, Michael Pagano, and Farhad Kaab OmeyrMunicipal governments in the United States generate revenues from their own sources (their authority to charge for services and collect taxes); other governments (intergovernmental revenue); and, by...
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Value Capture Beyond Public Land Leasing
Funding Transit and Urban Redevelopment in China’s Pearl River DeltaDocumentos de TrabalhoAgosto 2020Jiawen Yang, Rachelle Alterman, and Bin LiThe globally wide research community has limited knowledge of China’s value capture practices beyond the straightforward public land leasing practice. This research is built on a set of case...
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Infrastructure Investment in a Messy Urban Growth Scenario
The Role of Land Value Capture Instruments in ArgentinaDocumentos de TrabalhoAgosto 2020Cynthia Goytia and Marcela CristiniThe objective of this study is to explore the feasibility of widening public funding of urban infrastructure investment using land value capture (LVC) tools in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (...
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Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities
Documentos de TrabalhoFevereiro 2020Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. AndersonIn this paper, we examine how household mobility is affected by the choice of local government finance method (taxation versus debt finance) for U.S. cities. We develop a discrete time dynamic...
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Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad
Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling ConditionsDocumentos de TrabalhoJaneiro 2020Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa IbrahimThis paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in...