Budget transparency of Croatian counties, cities and municipalities

What determines the fiscal success at a local level? The case of Croatian local government units

“…However, it should be pointed out that the research performed in this paper differs as Gerunov [8] uses the Open Budget Index and investigates its effect on budget balance, primary balance and government debt across a sample of 57 countries. On the other hand, the indicator used in this paper involves only 1 out of 5 indicators that are collected and investigated at the level of LGUs in Croatia ( [16], [17] and [18] Robust standard errors are in parenthesis; *, ** statistical significance at 10% and 5%, respectively As was the case for the transparency variable, a statistically significant coefficient was obtained in the sample of municipalities for the socio-historical variable (war affected areas) as well. The positive sign indicates two facts.…”

Budget transparency in Croatian counties, cities and municipalities (November 2015 – March 2016)

“…* The data on budget proposals, enacted budgets and citizens budgets for 2015 were taken from the previous cycle of this research (Ott, Bronić and Petrušić, 2015).…”

Citizen Participation in Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Processes in Croatia

“…2 For more about transparency, see for example Bronić and Urban (2013) as well as Ott, Bronić and Petrušić (2014). 3 The Code binds public authority bodies to carry out on their internet sites public consultations about drafts of laws, other regulations and acts, in principle for 30 days, to publish the drafts of laws and regulations, and the reasons for them to be passed and the expected results.…”