Municipal Finance Journal

Volume 19, Number 4 (Winter
Winter 1999
Editor: W. Bartley Hildreth

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Editor's Note

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Financing Jails with Revenue Bonds: An Empirical Assessment
Dwight Denison, Merl Hackbart, and James Ramsey

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Competitive Bidding for Municipal Bonds: New Tests of the Underwriter Search Hypothesis
Paul A. Leonard

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Subsidized Borrowing and the Discount Rate: The Case of Municipal Capital Budgeting and Financial Management
Andrew Kalotay and Bruce Tuckman

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The Resurgence of Federalism:
The Case for Tax-Exempt Bonds
Maxwell A. Miller and Mark A. Glick

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Report of the California Interagency Municipal Securities Task Force
Matt Fong

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Accounting Developments:
GASB Update
Catherine L. Staples

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Tax Law Developments:
Washington Update
Paul Streckfus

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