The paper investigates the existence of fiscal illusion in German municipalities with special focus on the revenues from local public enterprises. These shadow budgets tend to increase the misperception of municipal tax prices and seem to have been neglected in the literature. Therefore, an...

Die Verschuldungssituation vieler kommunaler Haushalte hat sich seit Anfang der 90er Jahre zugespitzt. Ursächlich dafür war und ist die expansive Ausgabenpolitik der Kommunen, die zu Finanzierungsdefiziten geführt hat. Da sich aber die langfristigen Kreditmarktschulden in den letzten Jahren...

Scotland is engaged in a lively and on-going debate on greater fiscal autonomy and independence, which is politically controversial, especially in respect of tax-varying powers. The Scottish Parliament has the power to make a balanced-budget adjustment in public expenditure by varying the basic...

One of the critical questions in local public budgeting and finance is how the confluence of two major developments in the local public sector — the proliferation of tax and expenditure limits or TELs and the widespread budget crisis precipitated by the Great Recession — has affected local...