V. Working Group on Public Sector Finance and Accounting
Piotr Bury, Professor at the Institute of Economics, Świętokrzyska Academy, Kielce, Poland
Paper: Tax-Nature Fees in Local Government Budgets in Poland
Bartlomiej Gurba, Ph.D student, Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn
Paper: Vertical Imbalance and Bailout - The Case of Polish Local Governments Borrowing
Bryce Herrington, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Paper: Unanticiapted Budgetary Consequences of Devolution: Capacity Enhancing Potentials Within the Current
Russian Constitutional Framework
Mark W.S. Chandler, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper: Revenue Raising and Accountability of Local Governments in Lithuania
Lubov Chapurina, UNDP, Astana, Kazakhstan
Paper: “Enhancing Local Government Revenue Raising Capacity: A Way of Reaching More Accountable Local Government” - Case Study of Kazakhstan
Robert Jahoda, Jitka Pekova and Jan Selesovky, Czech Republic
Joint paper: Country Study: Czech Republic - Building Fiscal Capacities
Olga Kolovitskova, Intellectual Services and Technology Consult Group, Kiev, Ukraine and Yuriy Lukovenko, Humanitarian Development Technology Fund, Kiev, Ukraine
Joint paper: Ukraine: Enhancing Local Government Revenue Raising Capacity: A Way of Reaching More Accountable Local Government
Araksya Margaryan, Principal Lecturer, Institute of Ecology, Economics and Law, Yerevan, Armenia
Paper: Enhancing the Capacities of Regional and Local Governments to Provide More Authority in Public Finance
Thomas Meekel, UNDP / Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Serbia
Paper: Local Public Borrowing in Serbia: How May Local Authorities Raise Finances for their Priority Investments?
Adrian Miroiu and Paul-Dragos Aligica, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Joint paper: Public Higher Education Financing: A Comparision of the Historical and Formula-Based Mechanism
Mihaela Onofrei and Silviu Ursu, Romania
Joint paper: Enhancing Financial Capacity and Democratic Accountability of the Local Government: The Romanian Case
Leonida Pliskevitch, Byelorussian Academy of Science, The Institute of Economy, Minsk, Belarus
Paper: Enhancing Local Government Revenue Raising Capacity in Belarus
Sergii Slukhai, Associate Professor, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Ukraine
Paper: Building-up Fiscally Strong Local Governments – A Challenge for Ukraine
Paweł Swianiewicz, Centre for European Regional and Local Studies, Warsaw University
Paper: Local Taxes In Poland. Base for Local Accountability?
Viktor Trasberg, Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia
Paper: Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the Baltic Municipalities
David Tumanyan, Communities Finance Officers Association, Yerevan, Armenia
Paper: Fiscal Capacity Building in Armenian Local Government System
Karel Vit, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Paper: The Possibilities of Budget Deficit Financing
Ildar Zoulkarnaev, The State University of Bashkortostan, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation
Paper: Budget Incentives for Local Governments in the Republic of Bashkortostan to Develop Economy and to Improve Providing of Public Goods