This paper provides a spatial-econometric analysis of the setting of property tax rates by Dutch municipalities. We find evidence of tax mimicking: a ten percent higher property tax rate in neighboring municipalities leads to a 3.5 percent higher tax rate. Mimicking is less pronounced in municipalities governed by coalitions backed by a large majority. This points to yardstick competition as th...

Sound Pollution Due To Industries, Occupations And Municipalities Role In Managing Industries Decreasing It

In spite of increasing demands for service, many municipal street departments in Iowa have faced budget shortfalls due to revenue limitations. These budget shortfalls do not allow them to maintain an aging street system adequately without careful planning. Thin maintenance surface (TMS) techniques have been developed to extend pavement life by mitigating existing distresses. TMS techniques, suc...

Some minor issues that could be amended at the discretion of the authors: 1) The segmentation procedure is an issue. While in terms of management quality monitoring looking at administrative divisions such as municipalities might appear most relevant, the authors nevertheless mention, that this leads to certain limitations, caused e.g. by the area of municipalities being too small for providing...

In the context of the CoSeLoG project (which involves 10 Dutch municipalities), we realised a proof-of-concept implementation based on YAWL. The municipalities want to share a common IT infrastructure and learn from one another, but also allow for local differences. Therefore, we extended YAWL to run in a cloud-based environment leveraging on existing configuration possibilities. To support “YA...

I/S Nordforbrænding is an inter-municipal waste management company located north of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, which serves approximately 180,000 inhabitants. It was founded in 1965 and it is owned by six municipalities in North Sealand: Allerød, Søllerød, Hørsholm, Fredensborg-Humlebæk, Karlebo and Helsingør as shown in Fig. 1. The company’s mission was to establish a Waste-to-Energy ...

Sunday shop opening is deregulated to the municipal level in the Netherlands. Despite positive effects on economic growth and employment, many municipalities restrict Sunday shop opening. Based on 2003 data we show that diverse local characteristics, like the size of municipalities and religious and political affiliation, play a major role in decisions about Sunday shop opening. The evidence is...

The study evaluates whether and to what extent supply chain management (SCM) practices in local municipalities are implemented. A case study was undertaken in the Central District Municipality and its local municipalities, North West Province, Republic of South Africa. Purposive sampling was used through which thirty (30) respondents were identified and interviewed within the six municipalities...

In Finland the social and health care sector is undergoing major changes. The percentage of elderly population is growing due to longevity and low birth rates. Twice as many elderly need to be taken care of with the current amount of human and economic resources. New housing options to better support elderly and their family members have to be developed. The aim of the ongoing project is to dev...