Lucie Sedmihradská, Ph.D.

I am a lecturer at the Department of Public Finance at the University of Economics in Prague. I teach courses on Fiscal Federalism, Bachelors Thesis Seminar and Public Finance.

My research focuses for instance on local government finance and budgetary process:

 

·         Municipal budgetary process

·         Local government finance

·         Inter-municipal cooperation

·         State budget and budgetary process

·         Open state budget

 

The Czech version of the page contains links to all my publications, here only links to publications in English are shown.

 

Municipal budgetary process (back)

I am interested in the municipal budgetary process for years. Between 2003 and 2005 I elaborated the research project „Municipal budgetary process“ sponsored by the Czech science foundation No. 402/03/P068.

Municipal budgetary process in the Czech Republic is characterized together with results of a questionnaire survey in (1) (2).

The issue of budget accuracy was analyzed in 2004 (Municipal Budgets in the Czech Republic: Accuracy, Transparency and Accountability) and 2010 (Municipal budgeting and management in the Czech Republic: What did the year 2009 change?).

 

Local government finance (back)

I was a member of the NISPAcee working group on Public sector finance and accounting between 2004 and 2010. Since 2007 I served as one of the coordinators of this working group. During the years the country case studies on the following topics were elaborated:

local fees,
budgetary process (1) (2),
municipal debt,
tax assignment,
property tax,
municipal asset management
a impacts of economic decline on municipal management.

At the same time I have edited two books resulting from the activity of the working group: Property Tax in Economies in Transition: Selected Case Studies a Municipal Asset Management in Transition Countries: Selected Case Studies.

 

Political business cycle in Czech municipalities (back)

This project was elaborated together with Jakub Haas and Rudolf Kubík, with support from the Internal grant agency of the University of Economics (No.2/08). An earlier version of our final journal article is here.

 

State budget and budgetary process (back)

This is topic of my doctoral research and thesis. Unfortunately there are only two papers in English from that period:

The State Budget and Budgetary Process in the Czech Republic during Accession to the EU.

Government Roles and Implicit Liabilities in the Czech Republic

 

 

Open state budget (back)

I am one of the researchers participating on the Czech part of the International Budget Project.