Financing Cities

A Companion to Urban Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 311-331

  Inman, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

City financing; City services; Financing cities; Fiscal governance; Fiscal organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871051228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996225.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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