Public Budgeting & Finance

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Volume 42, issue 4, 2022

Are tax and expenditure limitations constraining institutions or institutionally irrelevant? Evidence from Minnesota pp. 3-33

Jason Shumberger and Akheil Singla

Municipal bond sectoral risk and information intermediation in uncertain times: Evidence from the Covid‐19 pandemic pp. 34-53

Lang (Kate) Yang and Ruth Winecoff

Information sharing and state revenue forecasting performance pp. 54-73

Thomas L. Spreen and Juan P. Martinez Guzman

The perception of employees on performance‐based budgeting reforms in developing countries: The perspective from Ghana pp. 74-92

Frank Ohemeng, Emelia A. Asiedu, Theresa Obuobisa‐Darko, Juliana A. Abane and Kenneth Parku

Fiscal condition, institutional constraints, and public pension contribution: are pension contribution shortfalls fiscal illusion? pp. 93-124

Trang Hoang and Craig S. Maher

Volume 42, issue 3, 2022

A reflection of changing priorities? The reallocative impact of priority‐based budgeting in US municipalities pp. 3-22

David Mitchell, Sarah E. Larson, Terry Henley, Auria Spranger and Suzette Myser

Implementing federalism: The case of Nepal pp. 23-40

Roy Bahl, Andrey Timofeev and Serdar Yilmaz

Fiscal competition and state pension reforms pp. 41-70

Trang Hoang

Medium‐term expenditure frameworks: Credible instrument or mirage? pp. 71-92

Ringa Raudla, James W. Douglas and Muiris MacCarthaigh

Windfall revenues from windfarms: How do county governments respond to increases in the local tax base induced by wind energy installations? pp. 93-113

Eric J. Brunner and David J. Schwegman

Federal budget process reform: An economics perspective, with imperfect, “Human” decision‐makers pp. 114-130

Marvin Phaup

Volume 42, issue 2, 2022

Conditional impacts of political and fiscal factors on state environmental budgets pp. 127-147

Andrew R. Duggan, Douglas A. Carr and Wenli Yan

The impact of pork‐barrel capital funding in schools: Evidence from participatory budgeting in NYC pp. 148-170

Michah W. Rothbart, David J. Schwegman and Iuliia Shybalkina

Financial manager professionalism and use of interfund transfers: Evidence from Georgia counties pp. 171-195

Michelle L. Lofton and Mikhail Ivonchyk

Revisiting the theory of revenue diversification: Insights from an empirical analysis of municipal budgetary solvency pp. 196-220

Benedict S. Jimenez and Whitney B. Afonso

The removal of tax expenditures from Spanish personal income tax: Impact on tax collection and income distribution pp. 221-254

Julio López‐Laborda, Carmen Marín‐González and Jorge Onrubia

Using dynamic common correlated effects approach to analyze the role of sin taxes in short‐ and long‐term fiscal surplus across US states pp. 255-278

Koomin Kim

Volume 42, issue 1, 2022

The impact of excess taxing capacity on short‐term resources pp. 3-27

Michelle L. Lofton

What drives program terminations for the federal government? pp. 28-44

Stuart Kasdin and Anthony McCann

Fiscal decentralization and regional economic growth: Evidence from Mexico since the 2000s pp. 45-65

Alfonso Mendoza‐Velázquez, Mónica Rubio‐García and Luis D. Conde‐Cortés

Financial statement timeliness and bond‐price dispersion in the municipal market pp. 66-97

Yulianti Abbas

State fiscal reserves: Supplementation and substitution over economic boom and bust years pp. 98-118

Christian Buerger, Vincent Reitano and Ciana Sorrentino

Volume 41, issue 4, 2021

Guns or Butter… or Elections? Understanding intertemporal and distributive dimensions of policy choice through the examination of budgetary tradeoffs at the local level pp. 3-19

Mary Jo McGowan, JoEllen V. Pope, Martha E. Kropf and Zachary Mohr

What drives road infrastructure spending? pp. 20-49

James Alm and Trey Dronyk‐Trosper

Experimental evidence about property tax word aversion pp. 50-70

Eric J. Brunner, Mark D. Robbins and Bill Simonsen

The use of short‐term debt by general‐purpose governments pp. 71-93

Michelle L. Lofton and Sharon N. Kioko

Medicaid and fiscal federalism during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 94-109

Jeffrey Clemens, Benedic Ippolito and Stan Veuger

Volume 41, issue 3, 2021

Editors Note pp. 3-4

Justin Marlowe and Sharon Kioko

Budgeting for existential crisis: The federal government as society's guarantor pp. 5-21

F. Stevens Redburn

State budget balancing strategies: COVID‐19 and the Great Recession pp. 22-41

Marilyn M. Rubin and Katherine Willoughby

The Federal Reserve Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF): Where the municipal securities market and fed finally meet pp. 42-73

Craig L. Johnson, Tima T. Moldogaziev, Martin J. Luby and Ruth Winecoff

Too small to fail: The role of Medicaid in mitigating pandemic‐related fiscal strain on local governments pp. 74-97

Victoria Perez, Joseph A. Benitez and Justin Ross

Volume 41, issue 2, 2021

Learning from the Joneses: The professional learning effect of regional councils of government on municipal fiscal slack in suburban Chicago pp. 3-21

David Mitchell, Whitney Davis and Rebecca Hendrick

Municipal reliance on fine and fee revenues: How local courts contribute to extractive revenue practices in US cities pp. 22-44

Siân Mughan

Stringency of balanced budget laws and transparency of budgeting process pp. 45-64

Haizhen Mou and Maritza Lozano Man Hing

The effects of corruption of public officials on the dimensions of financial sustainability of state governments in Mexico pp. 65-88

Gabriel Puron‐Cid

Uganda's fiscal policy reforms: What have we learned? pp. 89-107

Joseph Mawejje and Nicholas Odhiambo

Volume 41, issue 1, 2021

Variation is the Norm: A Landscape Analysis of Weighted Student Funding Implementation pp. 3-25

Marguerite Roza, Katherine Hagan and Laura Anderson

Fiscal Decentralization and Natural Disaster Mitigation: Evidence from the United States pp. 26-50

Qing Miao, Yu Shi and Meri Davlasheridze

The Adoption of Local Option Fuel Taxes: Evidence From Florida Counties pp. 51-75

Can Chen and Whitney B. Afonso

Direct Versus Indirect Federal Bond Subsidies: New Evidence on Cost of Capital pp. 76-120

Martin J. Luby, Peter Orr and Richard Ryffel

Structural Budget Balance as a Fiscal Rule in the European Union—Good, Bad, or Ugly? pp. 121-141

Ringa Raudla and James W. Douglas

Volume 40, issue 4, 2020

The Impact of School Choice on Public School Budgets: Evidence From Open Enrollment in New York City pp. 3-37

Michah W. Rothbart

Tax and Expenditure Limitations, Salary Reductions, and Public Employee Turnover pp. 38-61

Michael S. Hayes

General‐Purpose Local Government Defaults: Type, Trend, and Impact pp. 62-85

Lang (Kate) Yang and Yulianti Abbas

The Lure of New Jobs: How Framing Impacts Perceptions of Local Subsidies for Sports Teams pp. 86-103

Jennifer M. Connolly and Michael Touchton

Beyond Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting: Why State Governments Use Budget Balancing Maneuvers (or Gimmicks)? pp. 104-127

Rebecca Hendrick and Xiaoyan Hu

Accrual Accounting and the Government's Intertemporal Budget Constraint pp. 128-141

Timothy Irwin

Public Performance Budgeting: Principles and Practice, by Elaine Y. Lu and Katherine Willoughby. New York: Routledge, 2019. 204 pages. ISBN 9781138695979. City on the Line, by Andrew Kleine. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 279 pages. ISBN 9781538121887 pp. 142-146

William C. Rivenbark

Volume 40, issue 3, 2020

Introduction to Symposium: Modern Money Theory and Public Budgeting and Finance pp. 3-5

James W. Douglas and Robert S. Kravchuk

Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Debt? A Modern Money Theory Perspective on Federal Deficits and Debt pp. 6-25

James W. Douglas and Ringa Raudla

Sovereign Currency and Non‐Sovereign Budgets: The Modern Money Theory Approach pp. 26-48

L. Randall Wray

Monetary Sovereignty: Nature, Implementation, and Implications pp. 49-71

Eric Tymoigne

When the Interest Rate on the National Debt Is a Policy Variable (and “Printing Money” Does Not Apply) pp. 72-94

Scott Fullwiler

Post‐Keynesian Public Budgeting & Finance: Assessing Contributions From Modern Monetary Theory pp. 95-123

Robert S. Kravchuk

Volume 40, issue 2, 2020

Can Needs‐Based Grants Improve Local Transit Performance? Varying Effects by Level of Control pp. 3-19

Obed Pasha and Theodore H. Poister

Interlocal Collaboration and Local Fiscal Structure: Do State Incentives Matter? pp. 20-43

Sungho Park, Craig S. Maher and Carol Ebdon

The Influence of Finance Policies on Charter School Supply Decisions in Five States pp. 44-74

Christian Buerger

Are Overlapping Local Governments Competing With Each Other When Issuing Debt? pp. 75-92

Spencer T. Brien and Wenli Yan

Volume 40, issue 1, 2020

Looking Forward to Cuts: A Simulation Decision Tool for Cutback Management pp. 3-21

Spencer T. Brien, Philip J. Candreva, Stephen C. Hansen and Mina Pizzini

Assessing the Financial Impact of Natural Disasters on Local Governments pp. 22-44

Gang Chen

Financial Condition and Internal Control Deficiencies: Evidence From New York Counties pp. 45-69

Youngsung Kim and David S. T. Matkin

Predicting TIF Distress: A Statistical Analysis of Tax Incremental Finance Districts in Wisconsin pp. 70-90

John Kovari

An Additional Form of Appropriation: A Note pp. 91-98

Anthony McCann