To carry out the analysis required for monetary policy, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) need comprehensive and reliable government finance statistics. The focus of government finance statistics has traditionally been the government as a whole...

This paper aims to examine whether the status of fiscal decentralization generates efficiency in local spending behavior and leads to local fiscal performance and local economic growth, revealing not only the status of Romania from the point of vertical fiscal imbalance but also the fiscal...

Der folgende Beitrag soll anhand der Ergebnisse des Gutachtens einen Einblick in die Systematik und Problematik des Kernstücks des kommunalen Finazausgleichs, das Schlüsselzuweisungssystem, vermitteln. Zunächst wird der Verfassungsauftrag und seine Umssetzung diskutiert. Anschließend wird...

English councils saw big cuts to their funding during the 2010s, with spending on some services down between 40% and 70% over the decade. And although like virtually all public services, funding for local government was increased during the 2019-24 parliament, councils' finances are still under...