Public finance and taxation

In recent years, crowdfunding has become important and it has been enthusiastically used not only by commercial organizations but also by the public sector.

This book describes the institutions and process through which the Georgia General Assembly adopts a budget, the executive-legislative branch politics that transpire during the process and the tax and spending policies that the process produces.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of current techniques for profit shifting and tax base erosion in the area of corporate taxation and measurement.

This book elaborates on how Norway has managed to convert a large fraction of its endowment of hydrocarbons below the seabed of Norwegian waters into financial wealth, invested in the world's capital markets.

This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective.

This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries.

This book offers a series of statistical tests to determine if the "e;crowd out"e; problem, known to hinder the effectiveness of Keynesian economic stimulus programs, can be overcome by monetary programs.

This book discusses local area planning in the Lombardy region of Italy.

This book scientifically tests the assertion that accommodative monetary policy can eliminate the "e;crowd out"e; problem, allowing fiscal stimulus programs (such as tax cuts or increased government spending) to stimulate the economy as intended.

This expanded and enlarged third edition of Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos' popular Who's to Blame for Greece?

This book gathers selected papers from the 29th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal.

This book explores Portugal's response to the 2008 economic crisis and how the country regained the trust of the global capital markets through investor support.

New York City has the largest council-sponsored Participatory Budgeting (PB) processes in North America.

This book sheds new light on if and why, between 2009 and 2015, European governments succeeded or failed in initiating and actually realizing some of the farthest-reaching austerity plans in modern history.

In recent decades, the dissemination and the adoption of new public management (NPM) have been significant within the new public sector.

This volume is intended to serve as a review of the "e;next generation"e; of political economy scholars in what can be called the "e;Wagnerian"e; tradition, which traces its roots to Buchanan and De Viti De Marco in the 1930s, who argued that any decision that results from a political entity must be the product of individual decision makers operating within some framework of formal and informal rules.

Exploring the negative social impact of cyber-attacks, this book takes a closer look at the challenges faced by both the public and private sectors of the financial industry.

Emerging economies arguably have different socio-fiscal dynamics compared to developed economies.

Conventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax.

This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective.

Evaluation in recent decades has evolved from a tool for project appraisals to a more widely used framework for public decision-making and operational management.

This book gathers selected papers from the 28th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Coventry, United Kingdom.

Climate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and catastrophic climatic tipping point, beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be assumed likely to survive.

This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.

This volume features a selection of contributions presented at the 2019 Wroclaw Conference in Finance, covering a wide range of topics in finance and financial economics, e.

This book analyses the contribution of the new forms of reporting adopted by Public Sector Organisations in the provision of information on value creation processes to their various stakeholders.

This book examines the major economic challenges associated with the sustainability of public pensions, specifically demographic change, labor-market relations, and risk sharing.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of traditional as well as newer topics in local public, fiscal and financial management principles and practices.

The Late Middle Ages (c.

This book offers fresh insights into the economic development and financial markets of Southeastern and Central European countries.

The European Union (EU) has reached crisis point.

The United States has one of the most unique budgeting processes of any modern government.

Climate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and catastrophic climatic tipping point, beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be assumed likely to survive.

This edited volume takes a closer look at various European pension-plan models and the recent challenges, trends and predictions related to the design of such schemes.

This book examines key methodological and organizational questions with regard to assessing the quality of internal audits.

This book discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and their potential to protect and maintain critical infrastructure in a variety of global governmental settings.

This instructor's manual complements the textbook Money: Theory and Practice which provides an introduction to modern monetary economics for advanced undergraduates, highlighting the lessons learned from the recent financial crisis.

This book analyses the reform of Greece's public revenue administration promoted by its international lenders under the successive bailout agreements put in place since 2010.

Globalization and the information revolution have highlighted the catalytic role of local governments for improving economic and social outcomes at the local level as well as growing the national economy by enhancing international competitiveness.

This book focuses on income inequality, output-inflation trade-off and economic policy uncertainty in South Africa.

This textbook provides an introduction to modern monetary economics for advanced undergraduates, highlighting the lessons learned from the recent financial crisis.

Budgeting is probably the single most important function in government, considering the amount of money a government spends each year on various expenditure programs and activities, as well as the time it spends in preparing the budget, appropriating funds for these activities and, finally, executing them.

This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting.

The book covers financial inclusion in the southern cone (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile) and its impact on public finance.

This monograph highlights the benefits of public-private partnerships (PPP) for Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book focuses on the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT), second round effects and the inflation process in South Africa.

?

This book analyses the role of public sector accounting, and the relevance of accounting frameworks, in assisting financially sustainable policy making.

This book offers an essential guide to Public Finance and National Accounts in the context of the European Union.

Issues related to central banks feature regularly in economic news coverage, and in times of economic or financial crisis, especially when a commercial bank is bailed out, they become the focus of the policy debate.