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 …

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 …

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. 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 …