The Government Finance Database: A Common Resource for Quantitative Research in Public Financial Analysis.

Quantitative public financial management research focused on local governments is limited by the absence of a common database for empirical analysis. While the U.S. Census Bureau distributes government finance data that some scholars have utilized, the arduous process of collecting, interpreting, an...

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Main Authors: Kawika Pierson, Michael L Hand, Fred Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4479543?pdf=render