Chapter 1: Background and Emerging Challenges -- Chapter 2: Theory of Fiscal Federalism and Local Fiscal Domain -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Decentralization and Local Area Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 4: Globalization, Climate Change and Changing Face of Urban Public Finance -- Chapter 5:...

Finanzwissenschaft – Wirtschaftstheoretische und gesellschaftspolitische Grundlagen -- Umfang und Entwicklung des öffentlichen Sektors -- Funktionen des öffentlichen Sektors - Analytische Grundlagen -- Entscheidungstheoretische Grundlagen - Wohlfahrtsökonomie und Public Choice Theorie --...

Chapter 1. The Challenges and Opportunities of Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 2. Capital Planning and Budgeting for Infrastructure -- Chapter 3. Traditional Methods of Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 4. Innovative Mechanisms of Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 5. Case Studies in...

Fiscal Decentralization Reforms and Local Government Efficiency: An Introduction -- Fiscal Decentralization in Bulgaria -- Fiscal Decentralization in the Czech Republic -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Hungary -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Poland -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Romania --...

1. Extended New TSA - New Tool for Government Cash Management in Turkey -- 2. Public Debt Management Reforms in Turkey -- 3. The Role of Risk Management in Public Debt Management: the Case of Turkey -- 4. Management of Contingent Liabilities in Turkey -- 5. The Management of State-Owned Real...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive geographic and chronological overview of the decentralisation processes in the successor states of former Yugoslavia and Albania during their transition and EU integration years, from 1990 until 2016. These countries present a unique laboratory for...

1. The Local Budget as a Complex System—Concepts and Definitions -- 2. Fiscal Sustainability in the Short and Long Runs -- 3. The Revenue Module -- 4. The Expenditure Module -- 5. Debt -- 6. Economic Development -- 7. The Feedback Loop -- 8. Sustainability and Bliss -- 9. Conclusions and...

Chapter 1 Financial Impact of Mega Disasters – Introduction -- Chapter 2 Japan’s Disaster Risk Financing – Framework and Policies -- Chapter 3 Analysis of the Possible Impact of a Tokyo Mega Earthquake on Japanese Public Finance -- Chapter 4 Law and Policy Responses to Disaster-induced...

The Late Middle Ages (c.1300–c.1500) saw the development of many of the key economic institutions of the modern unitary nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth century, taxes on trade became increasingly significant contributors to government finances,...

Driving public organisations towards sustainability -- Debt management of urban gminas on the example of the Silesian Voivodeship -- The Impact of Limiting Tax Costs for Expenditure on the Purchase of Intangible Services from Related Entities on the Level of Tax Charges -- Environmental aspects...