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Property Tax and Quality of Life in the Czech Municipalities: Does the Policy of Raising Local Coefficient Imply Potential or Risk for Development?
Zdražil, Pavel; Pernica, Bohuslav - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 18 (2018) 2, pp. 123-136
Since the 1990s, the Czech intergovernmental fiscal relations have been undergoing a transformation. One of the measurements strengthening the autonomy of local authorities was the introduction of the instrument of the local coefficient in 2009 which provided the municipalities with the...
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Location and geographic diversification patterns of Spanish financial institutions: Implications for growth, 1989-2009
Alamá, Luisa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - 2010
Over the last twenty years, the Spanish banking industry has been deeply reshaped in several respects. One of the features that has allowed for it has been the geographic expansion of most savings banks, which could not enter other markets different from their natural market before 1989. Since...
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Electoral Credit Supply Cycles Among German Savings Banks
Gropp, Reint E.; Saadi, Vahid - 2015
increase supply of commercial loans by €7.6 million in the year of a local election in their respective county or municipality …
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Adaptation of a microsimulation model at the municipality level: demographic and employment evolution in the Altmark region of Germany
Unay-Gailhard, İlkay; Baqueiro-Espinosa, Omar - In: SIMULATION 91 (2015) 12, pp. 1088-1103
Multifunctional Activities in rural municipalities (PRIMA) conceptual microsimulation model for the Hohenberg–Krusemark municipality … correctly the model replicates past trends in the municipality network. The model’s assumptions are based on the results of a …
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Challenges and Possibilities of Sustainable Development in Regional Government Units
Dragičević, Daniel; Coner, Maja; Bukovinski, Daniel - 2019
The main goal of this article is to demonstrate whether the awareness of key actors and the application of the sustainable development concept can find appropriate solutions for the preservation of the environment in the contemporary conditions of economic development. Humanity today is facing...
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Disclosure of non-current tangible assets information in local government financial statements: The case of Lithuania
Kanapickiene, Rasa; Keliuotyte-Staniuleniene, Greta - In: Economies 7 (2019) 4, pp. 1-25
-current tangible assets in the financial statements of the municipalities of Lithuania and identify municipality characteristics having … analysis revealed that specific factors such as size of the municipality, municipality debt-paying capacity, municipality … tangible assets, and municipality revenue, have a statistically significant impact on the accounting information disclosure …
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Municipalities as Educational Producers - An Efficiency Approach
Waldo, Staffan - 2001
This paper studies efficiency in the provision of public education by local authorities using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Viewing education as a multilevel production process the models control for differences at other levels. Most important is the students' socioeconomic backgound and a...
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Education, Information, and COVID-19 Excess Mortality
Bello, Piera; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021
We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between municipalities with different shares of educated residents between 2012 and 2020, by means of a continuous event study model and controlling for many confounders. We find that...
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Socio-economic effects and the value of open data: A case from Sweden
Apanasevic, Tatjana - 2021
post at organisational level. This research aims to understand what kind of socio-economic impact a municipality gains by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606280
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Education and COVID-19 excess mortality
Bello, Piera; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021
We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between municipalities with different shares of educated residents between 2012 and 2020, by means of a continuous event study model and controlling for many confounders. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658984