Handbook of local government fiscal health / edited by Helisse Levine, Jonathan B. Justice, and Eric A. Scorsone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Levine, Helisse.

Justice, Jonathan B.

Scorsone, Eric A. (Eric Anthony)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Local finance--United States.

Local finance.

Local government--United States.

Local government.

Physical Description:

xviii, 555 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2013]

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

Fiscal health and sustainability concepts and measures

Assessing the financial condition of local governments : what is financial condition and how is it measured?

Local government fiscal stress and its measurement in theory and practice

Financial reporting and modeling

The development of external financial reporting and its relationship to the assessment of fiscal health and stress

Long-term financial forecasting and modeling for local governments

Pensions/opeb issues

Postemployment benefits and fiscal analysis

Sustainable approaches to retiree benefits : options and implementation for program design and financing

Revenue elasticity and adequacy

Public-finance and fiscal-federalism perspectives on local government revenue bases and fiscal sustainability

Understanding and measuring revenue elasticity, volatility, and implications for local government fiscal health

Business cycle, bubbles, and reserve funds : cutback management for the 21st century

Fiscal stress and cutback management amongst state and local governments : what have we learned and what remains to be learned?

A framework for deciphering and managing the fiscal environment

Fiscal slack, reserves, and rainy-day funds

Managing investments and investment risks

State oversight practices, including detailed case studies of exemplars

An intergovernmental perspective on local government fiscal health

Monitoring the fiscal health of America's cities

Measuring the impacts of TELs on municipal financial conditions

The defragmentation of authority : a consolidation approach to public service delivery

Debt capacity, management and policy

Measuring and monitoring debt capacity and affordability : market- and nonmarket-based models

State fiscal constraints on local government borrowing : effects on scale and cost

Good debt, gone bad : the 2008-09 crisis in municipal debt markets

Appendices

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

ISBN:

9780763792305

0763792306

OCLC:

642841185