This work represents analysis of the system of interbudgetary relations in the subjects of the Russian Federation in 2007. Main attention is paid to the issue of providing municipalities with the sources of revenue needed to carry out their powers assigned to them by the Federal legislation. In...

This paper includes proposals for regional administrations and local governments on the issue of performance based budgeting implementation developed as a result of analysis both of the role and place of those mechanisms in the system of regional and municipal governance as a whole and...

This paper investigates competition between jurisdictions in the context of cross-border shopping for state lottery tickets. Our theoretical model, in which consumers consider both travel costs and lottery payoffs, predicts that per-resident sales should be more responsive to prices in small...

By improving access, without altering the underlying information, computerization of land registration provides a unique case to test for credit supply effects of improved land administration that have often been elusive in the literature. We exploit the variation in the timing of the shift from...

The purpose of this article is to define nature, basis, and the effects of the economic development policy conducted by local governments in Poland. The analyses carried out are designed to define the role of local authorities in the management of economic development in the area. Furthermore,...

In The Spanish local corporations, divided in autonomous communities, counties and municipalities the limited autonomy and the financial inadequacy, like we seek to demonstrate in the article, they constitute a permanent characteristic of their evolution along the time. As consequence of that an...

Greek governments have supported investments to rural areas financially either by covering part of the investment and/or offering advantages with respect to interest rate loans or tax advantages. This support had been tendered either by nationally financed programs, called Development Laws, or...

Deregulation and progress in information and communication technologies have increased the geographical expansion of banking structures and instruments. This makes banks operationally close to the borrowers. At the same time, banking industry consolidation have induced a geographical...

This article reviews the history and major milestones of the policy for territorial organisation in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. The review takes into account the origin and evolution of said policy in terms of the legal codes regulating the sector and the documents issued...

Purpose – As a major agricultural province in central China, Hubei Province mainly carries out the peasant household credit investigation system through rural credit cooperatives (RCCs). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the peasant household credit investigation...