IMFG Papers

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69: Flooding: Toward a Municipal Contribution to Economic Risk Sharing: Bernard Deschamps, Philippe Gachon, Michel Leclerc and Mathieu Boudreault
68: Levelling Up Innovation in Local Government: An Evaluation of International Smart City Competitions: Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer and Aaron Eben
67: Land Use Planning to Mitigate Climate Change in the Greater Golden Horseshoe: An Analysis of Potential Scenarios: Clara Turner, Jeff Allen, Karen Chapple and Sarah A. Smith
66: Reforming Statutory Public Hearings for Planning: Aaron Moore and Alexandra Caporale
65: Decarbonization of Buildings in Canadian Cities: Using Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing to Attract Private Capital: Robert Stewart
64: How Can Municipalities in British Columbia and Québec Contribute to Flood Risk Reduction?: Bernard Deschamps, Michael Bourdeau-Brien and Mathieu Boudreault
63: Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities: Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky
62: The Old and the New: A Tale of Two Local Property Taxes in Ireland: Gerard Turley
61: Infrastructure Provision for Informal Settlements: Accra and Buenos Aires: Hsi-Chuan Wang
60: A New Agenda for Local Democracy: Building Just, Inclusive, and Participatory Cities: Brittany Andrew-Amofah, Alexandra Flynn and Patricia Wood
59: A Seat at the Table: Municipalities and Intergovernmental Relations in Canada: Tomas Hachard
58: Evaluating Affordable Housing Outcomes in Toronto: An Analysis of Density Bonusing Agreements: Julie Mah
57: Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change?: Richard Bird and Enid Slack
56: Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?: Adam Found
55: Indigenous-Municipal Legal and Governance Relationships: Doug Anderson and Alexandra Flynn
54: Addressing the Fairness of Municipal User Fee Policy: Almos Tassonyi and Harry Kitchen
53: Developing Air and Land Control at Toronto’s Airport: How Do Cities Use Their Fiscal Space?: Nick Lombardo
52: Municipal Financing Opportunities: How Do Cities Use Their Fiscal Space?: Jean-Philippe Meloche and Francois Vaillancourt
51: Cities in National Constitutions: Northern Stagnation, Southern Innovation: Ran Hirschl
50: Policy in Place:Revisiting Canada’s Tri-Level Agreements: Neil Bradford
49: Theme and Variations: Metropolitan Governance in Canada: Zack Taylor
48: Collaborative Regional Governance:Lessons from Greater Manchester: Alan Harding
47: Power and Purpose:Canadian Municipal Law in Transition: Zack Taylor and Alec Dobson
46: The Fallacy of the Creatures of the Provinces Doctrine: Kristin Good
45: The Role of Business Improvement Areas and Neighbourhood Associations in the City of Toronto: Alexandra Flynn
44: The Practice of Municipal Cooperation: Australian Perspectives and Comparisons with Canada: Graham Sansom
43: Mind the Funding Gap: Transit Financing in Los Angeles County and Metro Vancouver: Matthew Lesch
42: Does Local Government Autonomy Promote Fiscal Sustainability? Lessons from Illinois: Matthew Walshe
41: Development Charges in Ontario:Is Growth Paying for Growth?: Adam Found
40: The Platform Economy and Regulatory Disruption: Estimating the Impact on Municipal Revenue in Toronto: Zachary Spicer
39: Returning to the Golden Rule of Balanced Budgets: The Institutional and Political Economy of Restricting Public Deficits and Debt: Bernard Dafflon
38: The Public Finance Challenges of Fracking for Local Governments in the United States: Austin Zwick
37: Climate Finance for Canadian Cities: Is Debt Financing a Viable Alternative?: Gustavo Carvalho
36: Re-imagining Community Councils in Canadian Local Government: Alexandra Flynn and Zachary Spicer
35: Paying for Water in Ontario's Cities: Past, Present, and Future: Harry Kitchen
34: Financing Urban Infrastructure in Canada: Who Should Pay?: Enid Slack and Almos T. Tassonyi
33: Land Value Capture and Social Benefits: Toronto and São Paulo Compared: Abigail Friendly
32: (Re)creating Boundary Lines: Assessing Toronto's Ward Boundary Review Process: Alexandra Flynn
31: The Evolving Role of City Managers and Chief Administrative Officers: Michael Fenn and David Siegel
30: Climate Change, Floods, and Municipal Risk Sharing in Canada: Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlethwaite
29: Financing the Golden Age: Municipal Finance in Toronto, 1950 to 1975: Richard White
28: Did the Land Transfer Tax Reduce Housing Sales in Toronto?: Murtaza Haider, Amar Anwar and Cynthia Holmes
27: More Tax Sources for Canadaâ€™s Largest Cities: Why, What, and How?: Harry Kitchen and Enid Enid Slack
26: Good Governance at the Local Level: Meaning and Measurement: Zack Taylor
25: Can Tax Increment Financing Support Transportation Infrastructure Investment?: Murtaza Haider and Liam Donaldson
24: Cities, Data, and Digital Innovation: Mark Kleinman
23: Municipal Employee Pension Plans in Canada: An Overview: Bob Baldwin
22: A Good Crises: Canadian Municipal Credit Conditions after the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy: Kyle Hanniman
21: How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World: Enid Slack and Richard Bird
20: Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills: Almos Tassonyi, Richard Bird and Enid Slack
19: Cooperation and Capacity: Inter-Municipal Agreements in Canada: Zachary Spicer
18: A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT: Richard Bird
17: Provincial-Municipal Relations in Ontario: Approaching an Inflection Point: Michael Fenn and André Côté
16: Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice: Roy Bahl and Richard Bird
15: Public Finance in Montréal: In Search of Equity and Efficiency: Jean-Philippe Meloche and Francois Vaillancourt
14: Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better?: Enid Slack and Richard Bird
13: Trading Density for Benefits: Toronto and Vancouver Compared: Aaron A. Moore
12: Economies of Scale in Fire and Police Services in Ontario: Adam Found
11: Hungary: An Unfinished Decentralization?: Izabella Barati-Stec
10: The Reform of Business Property Tax in Ontario: An Evaluation: Michael Smart
9: IMFG Graduate Student Papers: (1) Development Charges across Canada: An Underutilized Growth Management Tool? (2) Preparing for the Costs of Extreme Weather in Canadian Cities: Issues, Tools, Ideas: Mia Baumeister and Cayley Burgess
8: Property Tax Reform in Vietnam: A Work in Progress: Hong-Loan Trinh and William J. McCluskey
7: You Get What You Pay For: How Nordic Cities Are Financed: Jorgen Lotz
6: Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One: Richard Bird
5: Revenue Diversification in Large U.S. Cities: Howard Chernick, Adam Langley and Andrew Reschovsky
4: Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India: Govinda Rao and Richard Bird
3: Financing Large Cities and Metropolitan Areas: Enid Slack
2: The Property Tax—in Theory and Practice: Enid Slack
1: Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Cautionary Note on Comparative Studies and Normative Models of Local Government Finance: Richard Bird