This study examines the financial implications of municipal annexations in Alberta, where annexation rates are among the highest in Canada. Many academics have attempted to draw conclusions about the fiscal impacts of annexation, finding that population and density growth drive fiscal outcomes. This study provides another viewpoint by focusing on those municipalities within Alberta, Canada, where abundant farmland is available for annexation, with relatively little provincial control. Consequently, annexation is pervasive across municipalities with varying growth trends, including those with declining populations and density loss. Theoretically, this calls for greater expenditure from costly low density development. Using local financial, a...
L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier si la dette des gouvernements locaux doit faire l’objet d’in...
Previous empirical studies of the effects of annexation on municipal expenditures and municipal effi...
Notre thèse est à l’effet que pour mesurer correctement la croissance des dépenses publiques, il fau...
This thesis was prompted by the concern over the Alberta Provincial Government's responsiveness to t...
Municipal finances have been an ongoing public issue in Alberta. See for example, McMillan and Dahlb...
Local governments in Alberta have faced considerable and variable challenges over the past 60 years....
In this paper, panel regression analysis is used to examine the fiscal impact of urban growth on per...
Municipal reliance on property taxes and the competing priorities of municipalities—in terms of wher...
The aim of this thesis is to study if the debt of local governments is a threat to their fiscal heal...
Municipal amalgamation is often seen as one way to ensure that municipalities are large enough to be...
Municipal governments own and maintain two-thirds of Canada’s stock of public infrastructure. This b...
There are good reasons to expect that attributes of local public finance may impact urban land use a...
This paper examines the impact of growth controls on the finances of local government. It focuses on...
Between 2011 and 2021, a significant number of Alberta’s towns, villages and rural areas experienced...
Municipal finances have of late become important topics of concern for policy-makers. A good deal of...
L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier si la dette des gouvernements locaux doit faire l’objet d’in...
Previous empirical studies of the effects of annexation on municipal expenditures and municipal effi...
Notre thèse est à l’effet que pour mesurer correctement la croissance des dépenses publiques, il fau...
This thesis was prompted by the concern over the Alberta Provincial Government's responsiveness to t...
Municipal finances have been an ongoing public issue in Alberta. See for example, McMillan and Dahlb...
Local governments in Alberta have faced considerable and variable challenges over the past 60 years....
In this paper, panel regression analysis is used to examine the fiscal impact of urban growth on per...
Municipal reliance on property taxes and the competing priorities of municipalities—in terms of wher...
The aim of this thesis is to study if the debt of local governments is a threat to their fiscal heal...
Municipal amalgamation is often seen as one way to ensure that municipalities are large enough to be...
Municipal governments own and maintain two-thirds of Canada’s stock of public infrastructure. This b...
There are good reasons to expect that attributes of local public finance may impact urban land use a...
This paper examines the impact of growth controls on the finances of local government. It focuses on...
Between 2011 and 2021, a significant number of Alberta’s towns, villages and rural areas experienced...
Municipal finances have of late become important topics of concern for policy-makers. A good deal of...
L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier si la dette des gouvernements locaux doit faire l’objet d’in...
Previous empirical studies of the effects of annexation on municipal expenditures and municipal effi...
Notre thèse est à l’effet que pour mesurer correctement la croissance des dépenses publiques, il fau...