Fiscal spending policies adopted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have been presented as a unique opportunity to “build back better” and re-ignite the economy while accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy. This paper analyses 1 166 funding measures announced by 51 countries...

1: Market System and the Role of Government -- Part I: Budget Background -- 2: Elements of Taxation -- 3: Elements of Government Expenditures -- 4: An Overview of Government Revenues -- Part II: Budget Basics -- 5: Understanding the Budget Process -- 6: Budget Systems, Underlying Structures, and...

Theoretical and practical problems of structural policy are considered under institutional uncertainty, financial constraints and fiscal consolidation programs. The necessity for development and implementation of a new concept of structural policy is justified in view of the actual state of the...

We study a fiscal policy model in which the government is present-biased towards public spending. Society chooses a fiscal rule to trade off the benefit of committing the government to not overspend against the benefit of granting it flexibility to react to privately observed shocks to the value...

We study a fiscal policy model in which the government is present-biased towards public spending. Society chooses a fiscal rule to trade off the benefit of committing the government to not overspend against the benefit of granting it flexibility to react to privately observed shocks to the value...

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:...