possibilities that fiscal rules trigger window dressing and creative finance. We use evidence from the Italian municipalities …

substitutes? Education is a prime example. I use exogenous shocks to Brazilian municipalities' revenue during 1995–2008 generated … by non-linearities in federal transfer laws to demonstrate two things. First, municipalities with higher income …

municipalities involved. The key success factors included: creating an agency to trigger, promote and implement age …

Measuring the quality of life in municipalities entails two empirical challenges. First, collecting a set of relevant … indicators that can be compared across the municipalities. Second, using an appropriate aggregating tool in order to construct a … synthetic index. This paper measures the quality of life for the largest 643 Spanish municipalities using Value Efficiency …

Current support for the development of sports infrastructure in municipalities is very different due to the high rate … of economic liberalization in the municipalities. As documented in a case study of cities Olomouc and Mladá Boleslav - it … depends on the individual municipalities approach to this issue. One of the causes of excessive budget burdens is gradual …

budget institutions and conflicts of interest within the Swedish municipalities. Our estimations suggest that institutions …. The fiscal surplus is higher in municipalities that have centralized their budget process to some degree, and where local … differ between municipalities with different degrees of conflicts of interests, calling for further research to understand …

municipalities. Our results support the notion that the interaction between institutions and preferences is important, as the … revenues, but only in municipalities that report substantial conflicts of interest. For municipalities where the conflict is …-over rules are important also in the absence of a centralized budget process, as fiscally successful municipalities to a large …

opportunities in the peripheral areas alongside skills shortages in the dynamic centre. Inequalities between municipalities are the …

outcomes. Chapter 3 examines how highway access affects commuting and employment in connected municipalities. Chapter 4 …