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1. An Examination of Sales Ratio Data and Sources Incorporated into the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study

   Working Papers
   December 2020
   Bob DeBoer

   The 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...

2. Strategic Interaction in Urban Infrastructure Finance

   A Spatial Panel Econometric Analysis of Chinese Prefecture-Level Cities
   Working Papers
   October 2020
   Can Chen, Kenneth A. Kriz, and Shuanglin Lin

   This research represents one of the first attempts to empirically examine strategic interaction in urban infrastructure expenditures on capital construction and maintenance in China. Drawing upon the...

3. How States Provide Cities with General Revenue

   An Analysis of Unrestricted State Aid
   Working Papers
   September 2020
   Amanda Kass, Michael Pagano, and Farhad Kaab Omeyr

   Municipal 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...

4. Greenventory 2.0

   Sustainability Lessons from Small and Midsize Legacy Cities
   Working Papers
   September 2020
   Joseph Schilling and Gabriella Velasco

   This working paper builds the policy case for why sustainability presents small-to-midsize legacy cities with a promising pathway for their regeneration. Its conceptual foundation rests at the...

5. Methodology Used to Create the Fiscally Standardized Cities Database

   Working Papers
   September 2020
   Adam H. Langley

   This 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...

6. Value Capture Beyond Public Land Leasing

   Funding Transit and Urban Redevelopment in China’s Pearl River Delta
   Working Papers
   August 2020
   Jiawen Yang, Rachelle Alterman, and Bin Li

   The 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...

7. Infrastructure Investment in a Messy Urban Growth Scenario

   The Role of Land Value Capture Instruments in Argentina
   Working Papers
   August 2020
   Cynthia Goytia and Marcela Cristini

   The 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 (...

8. Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities

   Working Papers
   July 2020
   Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

   This 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...

9. Conserving Biodiversity on South Africa’s Privately-Owned Grasslands

   Farmer Experiences with Protected Areas
   Working Papers
   July 2020

   South Africa’s Biodiversity Stewardship Initiative and Protected Areas Act are programs designed to help protect threatened species and provide other conservation benefits. Private grasslands...

10. The Property Tax in Latvia

    System Structure and Current Challenges
    Working Papers
    July 2020
    Sarmite Barvika

    The aim of this paper is to analyze the current state and trends of real property taxation policy in Latvia. Particular importance is given to the general statistical and historical overview of real...