Immovable property tax is one of the key elements of fiscal decentralization in the Czech Republic. It is the only tax that is directed to municipal budgets in the full amount. It is also the only tax the total receipts of which can be influenced by municipalities by means of corrective...

Once in office, politicians propose policies and programmes aimed at winning the support of their constituencies. While this form of political activism increases with the number of politicians in government, it can also clash with capacity constraints, leading to a congestion effect whereby...

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

The budgets governments present around the beginning of their fiscal years and the financial statements they publish in their annual reports after their fiscal years have ended are critical tools for legislators and voters to hold them accountable. The transparency of these documents to...

A municipality’s budget is a tool that significantly affects the long-term economic potential of the area. In addition, it is an important tool for the management of the municipality, in relation to the effective provision of public services for inhabitants. To ensure them, it uses the...

This paper uncovers the factors that determine the duration of participatory budgeting programmes in Brazilian municipalities using continuous- and discrete-time duration models. The empirical analysis shows that the longer the participatory budgeting programme is, the higher the likelihood of...

This paper examines the intertemporal linkages between local government expenditures and revenues. In the terminology that has become standard in the literature on vector autoregression analysis, the issue is whether revenues Granger-cause expenditures, or expenditures Granger-cause revenues....

Immovable property tax is one of the key elements of fiscal decentralization in the Czech Republic. It is the only tax that is directed to municipal budgets in the full amount. It is also the only tax the total receipts of which can be influenced by municipalities by means of corrective...

In Slovakia, participatory budgeting represents one of the relatively new instruments of political participation. It has been used since 2011. Currently it is present on both levels of territorial self-government (i.e., local level and regional level). Nevertheless, its implementation into...

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany’s fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

The current paper presents a method of deciding the question of whether any given stage in the budget process is an example of the "political" or the "bureaucratic" model. We then use it to study local government spending on education. The basis for our method is the important difference between...

This paper contains a descriptive analysis o+ real per capita annual revenues, expenditures, deficits, debt levels and capital expenditures for federal, state and local government finance in the United States for the rears 1952-83. It summarizes each time series as a deterministic trend and an...

This paper investigates how the fiscal environment and the budgetary process affect wage and employment determination in the local public sector. The structure of the local tax system is found to be influential with significantly higher wages occurring in cities with access to local sales and/or...

Die Prüfung der doppischen Jahres- und Gesamtabschlüsse als verlässliche Quelle für die Einschätzung der Vermögens-, Finanz- und Ertragslage einer Kommune und die Prüfung der Wirtschaftlichkeit der Aufgabenerfüllung sind heute elementare Schlüssel zu erfolgreicher Verwaltungspraxis. Die...

In der nun bereits als 9. Auflage des sowohl für die Ausbildung als auch in der Praxis bewährten Studienbuches wurden alle Kapitel überarbeitet und auf den aktuellen Stand der Rechtsentwicklung gebracht. Die für die Haushalts- und Finanzwirtschaft der niedersächsischen Kommunen wichtigen...

A municipality's budget is a tool that significantly affects the long-term economic potential of the area. In addition, it is an important tool for the management of the municipality, in relation to the effective provision of public services for inhabitants. To ensure them, it uses the revenues...

The transition from cash to accrual accounting is said to change a government's perception of its budget quite fundamentally. Although an exorbitant number of governments have reformed the mode of accounting at high costs in past years, reliable empirical evidence of consequences on their...

Die Corona-Krise hat bei den Kommunen zu zusätzlichen Ausgaben und hohen Steuerausfällen geführt. Zur Stabilisierung der Kommunalfinanzen hat der Bund zwei Gesetzesinitiativen auf den Weg gebracht. Neben einer dauerhaft stärkeren Beteiligung des Bundes an den Kosten für Unterkunft und...

The mainstream fiscal federalism literature has led to an instinctive belief that states receiving fiscal aid during a recession are taking advantage of the federal government in pursuit of localized benefits with dispersed costs. This policy brief by Alex Williams challenges this unreflective...

Bereits vor Beginn der Corona-Krise standen die Problemlagen der Kommunalfinanzen häufig im Fokus, auch wenn sich die Situation in den letzten Jahren durch die gute gesamtwirtschaftli-che Lage etwas entspannt hatte. Hohe Schuldenstände und im langfristigen Vergleich niedrige Investitionen...

COVID-19 causes health, economic and social problems throughout the world, including Indonesia and Malang City, in particular, therefore regional financial policies are needed as an effort to overcome them. This study aims to analyze and describe the acceleration of Malang City Budget adjustment...