Financing cities
By: Robert P. Inman.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11203; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11203.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Municipal finance.; Municipal revenue.; Municipal services.
Description: "The macro-economic and micro-economic evidences makes a persuasive case for cities as important centers for productive efficiency, innnovation, and economic growth.  For cities to achieve their full economic potential, however, complementary public services are required.  This paper reviews the arguments and the evidence for the efficient financing and governance of city public services.  Against the criterion of efficiency, city services should be limited to those services valued by city residents; financing should assign residential taxes to residential services and business land taxes and fees to business services; and city governance should foster competition and choice"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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