Municipal Finance
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Municipal Finance - General
- Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) - Government Finance Officers Association—professional organization for municipal finance managers. (GFOA)
- The Bond Buyer - Financial newspaper focused primarily on the municipal bond market and municipal finance.
- Council of State Governments - Council of State Governments. Provides timely news on wide variety of state issues in the States News section.
- Fiscal Survey of States - National Governors Association and National Association of State Budget Officers publishes its annual Fiscal Survey of the States analysis of state financial condition. Publications listing recent annual reports.
- Government Finance Statistics (Census) - U.S. Census site on Government Finances
- Municipal Bankruptcy — Chapter 9 - From U.S. Courts — Bankruptcy Basics. The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing for reorganization of municipalities (which includes cities and towns, as well as villages, counties, taxing districts, municipal utilities, and school districts).
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- National Conference of State Legislatures - National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) provides comprehensive content on wide variety of public policy and fiscal issues affecting state governments, including ballot initiatives.
- Rockefeller Institute of Government - The public policy arm of the State University of New York at Albany. Special focus on state government finance.
- State Government Finances - State Government Finances gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- The Postwar Quality of State and Local Debt - The Postwar Quality of State and Local Debt by George H. Hempel; Published in 1971 by National Bureau of Economic Research. Seminal study on municipal debt characteristics, including historical default data during the Great Depression.
- Women in Public Finance - Women in Public Finance, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational and networking opportunities to professional women in the municipal finance industry
- ABSNET - Asset Backed Securities database with industry benchmark, trends and comparisons, incl. mortgages and comparisons.
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Municipal Finance - Public Pension Funds
- State & Local Government Pension Forum - Forum, co-sponsored by the Civic Federation of Chicago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the National Tax Association, addressed major issues in public pension funding, including a comparison to the rising crisis in private pension plans, evaluation of the long term costs of pension underfunding and their impact on municipal government credit ratings, as well as calls for pension reform. A number of the presentations are featured on the website.
- State & Local Government Retirement Systems - The State and Local Government Employee-Retirement System survey provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for public employee retirement systems.
- State & Local Government Retirement Systems - The State and Local Government Employee-Retirement System Census survey provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for public employee retirement systems.
- Wilshire Report on State Pensions - Comparative report on funding issues for state pension plans (PDF report).
- Arizona State Retirement System - Impressive state pension fund web site
- Austin (TX) Employees’ Retirement Sys - City of Austin, Texas Employees’ Retirement System
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- Employee Benefit Research Institute - Organization that conducts research pertaining to Employee Benefits
- Florida Retirement System
- GASB Statement on Other Post Employment Benefits - Governmental Accounting Standards Board Summary and Status Report on Statement 45 concerning Other Post-Employment Benefits Accounting (e.g. health care).
- Illinois Public Pension Fund Association - The IPPFA (Illinois Public Pension Fund Association) was founded in 1985 as a not-for-profit umbrella organization representing police and fire defined benefit retirement funds in the State of Illinois.
- Los Angeles City Employees Retirement - Los Angeles, California City Employees’ Retirement System
- Maryland State Retirement & Pension Syst - State Retirement and Pension System of Maryland
- Minnesota State Retirement System
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