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Meloche, Jean-Philippe; Vaillancourt, François - 2021

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Revenue autonomy and entrepreneurship in the municipalities of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Wichowska, Anna; Wierzejski, Tomasz - In: Olsztyn economic journal 14 (2019) 1, pp. 75-86

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Rules versus home rule : local government responses to negative revenue shocks

Shoag, Daniel W.; Tuttle, Cody; Veuger, Stan - 2017

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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks

Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany’s fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks

Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518088

Case study of central and local government finance in Japan

Bessho, Shun-ichiro - 2016

This paper aims to provide an overview of the basics of Japan's local public administration and finance system and to analyze how Japan's municipalities restore their fiscal balance after a fiscal shock. In Japan, local governments play a major role in redistribution. Combined with regional...

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From urban core to wealthy towns : nonschool fiscal disparities across Connecticut municipalities

Zhao, Bo - 2015 - This version: August 2015

Using a cost-capacity gap framework, this paper is the first study to quantify nonschool fiscal disparities across Connecticut municipalities. In the absence of a Uniform Chart of Accounts for municipalities, the paper uses a newly assembled dataset of multi-year local financial records,...

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The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Africa : evidence from Tanzania

Masaki, Takaaki - 2016

Do intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)? There is already a … revenues. Most existing studies, however, explore the fiscal implications of intergovernmental transfers in high …-income countries where sound fiscal systems are taken for granted. In this paper, I explore the impact of intergovernmental transfers …

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The fiscal capacity of local government versus government expenditure, and its impact on eliminating interregional social inequalities in Poland

Gałecka, Małgorzata; Patrzałek, Leszek; Kuropka, Ireneusz - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 9 (2022) 1, pp. 51-67

Social inequalities are a significant challenge in developing countries. Therefore, they should be treated as a leading priority in boosting socio-economic development. Such inequalities are a growing challenge for Poland. It is believed that social inequalities are behind Poland's relatively...

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Local Property Tax Reform and Municipality Spending Efficiency

Afonso, António; Venâncio, Ana - 2022

We investigate the effect on municipality spending efficiency of a local property tax reform, which reduced in 2008 the upper limit of the property tax. We compute municipality efficiency scores via data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) from 2005 to 2011, and then we rely in a panel data set to...

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