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Market Structure and Audit Fees: A Local Analysis*

Contemporary Accounting Research, 2004
AbstractThis study conducts a local analysis of the relation between market structure and audit fees. The research question of interest to us is how audit fees are determined by each practicing local office, after taking into account the auditor's own position in a local market and the influence exerted by his or her clients.
SATI P. BANDYOPADHYAY, JENNIFER L. KAO
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Local Choices for Development Impact Fees

Urban Affairs Review, 2006
This article investigates the patterns and determinants of local impact-fee adoptions. The theoretical framework combines political market approaches based in interest-group theories of property rights and diffusion theories of innovation. Event history analysis is employed to estimate impact-fee adoptions in 66 Florida counties from 1977 to 2001. The
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Consulting with local authorities on fee setting for services

Nursing and Residential Care, 2014
Prospective residents may have the choice of several care homes that suit their health-care needs, however, the cost of the accommodation is usually a major factor that prevents local authorities from sanctioning the move to some services, as Pete Donohue explains
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Research on Patent Fees Subsided by Local Government in China

2008 International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2008
More and more countries take patent fees as a tool and use it strategically, improving the functions of patent fees in the international competition. This article especially analyzes the new trend of citizenspsila patent fees subsided by local government in China and the various reasons pushing the implementation of related polices, while it also ...
Wen Jiachun, Zhou Yongtao, Zhu Xuezhong
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The effectiveness of behavioural interventions on increasing revenue from local fee

Review of Behavioral Finance, 2020
PurposeThe objective was to increase earnings of the city of Prievidza from waste disposal fee by proactive communication – reminder (a letter) and leaflets with targeted framing. The quasi-experiment aims to find out which type of leaflet framing (an injunctive social norm or public good) causes the most effective change in the debtors' behaviour ...
Matúš Sloboda, Patrik Pavlovský, Emília Sičáková-Beblavá   +2 more
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUDIT PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS, AUDIT EFFORT, AND AUDIT FEES

Research in Accounting Regulation, 2003
Abstract For several years, Florida local governments have been subject to laws intended to enhance audit quality. Hackenbrack et al. (2000) report that the fiscal 1992 audit fees of Florida local governments exceed those of local governments in surrounding states and conclude that Florida’s audit procurement requirements created an “audit market ...
Laurence E. Johnson, Robert J. Freeman, Stephen P. Davies   +2 more
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Use of Fees to Fund Local Public Health Services in Western Massachusetts

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2015
Recent budget cuts have forced many local health departments (LHDs) to cut staff and services. Setting fees that cover the cost of service provision is one option for continuing to fund certain activities.To describe the use of fees by LHDs in Western Massachusetts and determine whether fees charged cover the cost of providing selected services.A cross-
A, Shila Waritu, Maria T, Bulzacchelli, Michael E, Begay   +2 more
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Local Identity of No-Fee Preservice Students and Its Impact on Their Localized Professional Orientation

Chinese Education & Society, 2013
Based on analysis of the responses of 359 no-fee preservice students, this study found that: (1) Local identity includes the living environment, cultural environment, people, behavior, economic identity, and sense of alienation associated with one's home place.
Ze Yang, Ling Li, Chengchen Zhu, Lexiang Guo, Liangyong Huang   +4 more
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Economic and Political Determinants of Fee Income in Norwegian Local Governments

Public Choice, 1995
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of fee income in Norweigan local governments. The point of departure is a representative voter model emphasizing the effects of pure economic variables. The benchmark model is extended by including two aspects of the political system: ideology and strength.
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Local funding mechanism for Chapel Hill: transit impact fees

2008
In the 2006 NC General Assembly Session, a law was passed (Session Law 2006-103/House Bill 2724) amending the Town of Chapel Hill Charter to allow the Town to establish a payments-in-lieu system to collect funds for transit improvements in lieu of requiring roadway construction.
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