Subject(s): Local finance -- Local government -- Fiscal Issues -- Local public services- Need, demand and rationing in action, On the use of statistical techniques to infer territorial spending needs, Judgement and analysis- Developing indexes of economic and social deprivation for local authority financing, Model of optimum local authority size -- Impact of economic change ona business tax base, Local public spending in France- Case of welfare programmes, Local authorities expenditure behaviour in Italy and regional differences, Short period macroeconomic incidence and effects of state and local taxes -- Changing perception of the role of local government with particular reference to the UK, Governance of two national health services - UK and Italy compared, Local autonomy and the European union structural fund transfers, Requirement of a balanced local budget in Swiss experience -- Political economy of state and local tax structure , European integration and local government finance, Tax harmonization and tax competition at state local levels in Switzerland