Conferences Arranged by IUI In June, 1981, IUI hosted an international conference on the theme Is Local Government Spending Out of Control? Experiences from the U .S., U.K. and Sweden on the controi of local government expenditures we re discussed and evaluated. The conference is further presented in Ysander's article in this volume. Papers presented at the conference are listed below. Tomas Nordstrรถm and Bengt-Christer Ysander, IUI Local Government Economic Stability and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy, IUI Working Paper No. 44. Edward M. Gramlich, University of Michigan Excessive Government Spending in the U.S. - Facts and Theories, IUI Working Paper No. 87. Wallace E. Oates, University of Maryland An Assessment of the U.S. Experience, IUI Working Paper No. 90. Richard Murray, University of Stockholm Central Controi of the Local Government Sector in Sweden, IUI Working Paper No. 56. Peter Jackson, University of Leicester Fiscal Containment and Local Government Finance in the U .K., IUI Working Paper No. 89. Noel Hepworth, CIPFA Controi of Local Authority Expenditure - The Use of Cash Limits, IUI Working Paper No. 88.
For late August 1983, an international symposium on The Dynamics of Decentralized (Market) Economies is being organized jointly by IUI and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO). For further information"ab out this symposium, see pp . 125-127.
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