State And Local Financial Instruments

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The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This second edition of State and Local Financial Instruments covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital financing role in a fiscal federalist system, where subnational governments are responsible for financing the nationÕs essential physical infrastructure.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Johnson, Craig L.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2021-11-09
File : 320 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781800370937


Tools For State And Local Fiscal Management

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Governments have always endured economic woes, but the increasing severity of such challenges, from the Great Recession starting in 2008 to the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlights the need for better-developed fiscal analysis capacity in governments of all sizes using the most practical—yet robust—techniques available. This volume presents an array of real-world analytical approaches in a variety of service areas at the core of state and local government.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Hathaway, Alex
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2021-12-14
File : 384 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781800886414


Derivative Financial Instruments Relating To Banks And Financial Institutions

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Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Release : 1995
File : 364 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000024359412


State And Local Financial Instruments

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The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This book covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital financing role in

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Craig L. Johnson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2014-09-26
File : 283 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781783476176


Fiscal Decentralization And Local Finance In Developing Countries

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This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge the gap between the conventional textbook treatment of fiscal decentralization and the actual practice of subnational government finance. The extensive literature about the theory and practice is surveyed and longstanding problems and new questions are addressed. It focuses on the key choices that must be made in decentralizing, on how economic and political factors shape the choices that countries make, and on how, by paying more attention to the need for a more comprehensive approach and the critical connections between different components of decentralization reform, everyone involved might get more for their money.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Roy Bahl
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2018-03-30
File : 430 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781786435309


State And Local Public Finance

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Now in its 4th edition, State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of state and local government public finance practices and issues, using the basic tools of economics. For this new edition, there is a focus on the most important services provided in the state-local sector: education, health and welfare, public safety, and transportation. This textbook provides an examination and analysis of public finance practices and problems in a federal fiscal system, focusing on the fiscal behaviour and policies of state and local governments. The author presents detailed descriptions of significant institutions. Modern economic theory is applied to examine the way these institutions are used to produce and finance services, and to provide evaluation of alternative policies. Although the emphasis is on U.S. institutions and issues, much of the economic analysis can be applied to any federal system or to fiscal decentralization. This fully revised new edition sees updates throughout to data, topics, and applications. The Headlines and Applications sections reflect the most current policy issues affecting state and local governments. These include the effects of the Great Recession on state and local governments, changes in the tax treatment of internet purchases, the Affordable Care Act and implications for Medicaid spending by state governments, demographic changes and the implications for state-local finances, the implications of changes in automobile technology for transportation financing, and the potential for increased gambling activity. This text will continue to be invaluable reading for those who study public finance, local government finance, urban economics and public policy and public administration.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Ronald C. Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2018-09-03
File : 647 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317513841


Multi Level Finance And The Euro Crisis

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Representing a unique contribution to the analysis and discussion of the unfolding Eurozone crisis in terms of the relationship between central and local government, this book addresses a number of important fiscal and political economy questions. To what extent have local and regional governments contributed to the crisis? To what degree have sub-national services and investments borne the brunt of the adjustments? How have multi-level fissures affected tensions between different levels of government from the supranational to the local? This volume covers these and many other critical issues that have been largely ignored despite their relevance. The book first addresses general issues of fiscal coordination and management across levels of government in the context of incentives, which can be altered by the existence of a supranational tier. The country-specific chapters, prepared by leading experts, provide a thorough review of the key problems of multi-levels of government in the biggest economies in the Eurozone (France and Germany) and Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece). In further chapters the juxtaposition of Barcelona and Turin provides an opportunity to evaluate large investments in a multi-level context, associated, in this case, with the Olympics. Macedonia provides a discussion of the related issues in an EU accession country. As a whole, the book explores the long-term impact of the crisis on local service delivery and investment, and the consequences for sustainable growth and political cohesion. It also offers rarely found insights and suggestions to increase the stability and strength of multi-level European institutions. This is an enlightening resource for all those, from academics and graduates to policy makers and practitioners, seeking a comprehensive understanding of European fiscal, federal and financial issues.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Ehtisham Ahmad
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2016-01-29
File : 376 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781784715113


Tax Reform And The Tax Treatment Of Financial Products

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Genre : Financial instruments
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
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Release : 2011
File : 548 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951D03509293I


Fiscal Decentralization And Budget Control

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How can governments control spending pressure from influential groups, often representing powerful regional interests? This book is concerned with institutional solutions that allow modern nation states to balance historically grown cultural, political and economic diversity. Laura von Daniels combines different literatures in economics and political science, and draws on interviews with former government leaders, and country experts from international organizations. She applies this research to topics such as fiscal institutions and budget balances, presenting a critical review of different institutional approaches to resolving fiscal imbalances and public indebtedness. Students and scholars of various disciplines, including politics, public and social policy, economics and business will find the discussions and detailed description of institutional reforms in emerging market nations to be of use to their research. It will also be of interest to practitioners working on fiscal decentralization and budget control.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Laura von Daniels
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2016-03-25
File : 221 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781783475957


Intergovernmental Transfers In Federations

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Intergovernmental Transfers in Federations presents a synthesis of international experience of large federations in the most recent times in addressing the most fundamental issue of horizontal and vertical imbalances in their countries through the prism of intergovernmental transfers. Contributors delve into the various aspects of policy making as well as policy choices in selecting an efficiency path for a meaningful fiscal devolution aimed at integrating performance and incentives to reach an expenditure mix that facilitates better service delivery.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Serdar Yilmaz
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2020-01-31
File : 375 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781789900859