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Introduction: The Relevance and Conceptualisation of Local Public Finance Regulatory Regimes.- PART I. Concepts of Regulation.- Budget Institutions for Subnational Fiscal Discipline: Local Fiscal Rules in Post-Crisis EU Countries.- Fiscal Rules at the Local Level: The Challenge of Enforcement.- Financial Supervision of Local Governments: An Organisational Hurdle.- European Patterns of Local Government Fiscal Regulation.- Local Public Finance Regulation in Southeast Europe: A Comparison of Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia.- The Impact of Fiscal Rules on the Financial Management of Municipalities: A Comparative Analysis of Czech Republic and Slovakia.- Monitoring Local Government Financial Sustainability: A Dutch-English Comparison.- The Implementation of Fiscal Regulation: Insights from Germany.- Fiscal Supervision and Party Politics – Lessons from Austria and Germany.- PART II. Bailouts and Insolvency.- Preventing Local Government Defaults: No-Bailout Policy and its Alternatives.- Municipalities and Excessive Debt – Local Insolvency Regimes as an Alternative to Bailouts?.- Four Decades of Municipal Bailouts in Germany.- PART III. Local Public Finance in Times of Crisis.- Global Crisis, Local Impact: A Comparative Approach to the Financial Crisis’ Impacts on European Local Levels.- Fiscal consolidation in German and Greek Local Governments: Reform Attempts, Supervision, and Local Measures.- Financial Decisions, Intergovernmental Grants and Regulatory Instability: The Case of Italian Municipalities.- Insights from City Financial Realities: Comparing and Learning across Borders.- Taking Stock: The Role of Institutional Context for Local Government Financial Resilience.- Local Government Tax Structure.
