This paper analyzes the trade-offs between the social cost of risk bearing and incentive
effects for technical efficiency in PPP contracts for utilities. Using a principal-agent …

US local governments play a key role in funding, operating, and maintaining local roads,
bridges, airports, transit facilities, drinking water and sewer systems, and other types of …

Infrastructure is the foundation of modern economies. A robust, efficient, and well-
maintained infrastructure system is critical to support the nation's economy, improve quality …

In recent decades, the federal government has introduced complex, multilevel state‐
operated revolving loan fund programs as an instrument for promoting state and local …

While municipalities in the United States face many challenges, one of the most critical is an
aging stock of infrastructure. Concurrent with this issue is a new fiscal reality where local …

Transport infrastructure connectivity is a spatial basis for economic development and the
spillover and feedback effects of transport infrastructure investment (TII) have become an …

In recent years, significant attention has been given to measuring the financial condition of
local governments, predicting when those governments will experience fiscal distress, and …

Cities across the United States are facing a severe infrastructure deficit. The challenge of
financing infrastructure capital assets has emerged as one of the most urgent issues of the …

This study explores capital asset maintenance practices and challenges in US counties,
which have been understudied in previous public administration research. We also compare …

This study examines the time to adoption of local option fuel taxes (LOFTs) among Florida
counties from 1972 to 2015. Florida county governments are authorized to levy up to 12 …