CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Esta dissertaÃÃo à composta por dois artigos, que estÃo dispostos em capÃtulos, nos quais foram utilizados metodologias e bancos de dados diferentes. No primeiro capÃtulo, intitulado âMensuraÃÃo da Capacidade e EsforÃo Fiscal dos MunicÃpios do Nordeste Brasileiro: uma AnÃlise de Fronteira EstocÃsticaâ, a partir de dados anuais, no perÃodo de 2001 a 2012, tem como objetivo mensurar a capacidade e esforÃo fiscal municipal, por meio da metodologia de Fronteira EstocÃstica, modelo de Battese e Coelli (1995). A partir dos resultados encontrados, tem-se que todas as variÃveis selecionadas â populaÃÃo, estabelecimentos de serviÃos declarantes, nÃmero de trabalhadores com vÃnculo empregatÃcio em empresas de serviÃos e o valor adicionado de serviÃos - tiveram impactos positivos sobre a arrecadaÃÃo fiscal.Por sua vez, os investimentos pÃblicos municipais e a inflaÃÃo anual reduziram a ineficiÃncia da arrecadaÃÃo tributÃria. Este resultado,relativamente à inflaÃÃo, configura o efeito parecido com o denominado Tanzi Ãs Avessas, uma vez que ocorreu crescimento da inflaÃÃo e da arrecadaÃÃo tributÃria concomitantemente.Com relaÃÃo ao esforÃo fiscal, o valor mÃdio dos MunicÃpios do Nordeste brasileiro, para o perÃodo de estudo, à de 0,83, indicando que estes, possivelmente, encontram-se prÃximos da Fronteira de arrecadaÃÃo tributÃria. No segundo capÃtulo, intitulado âEndividamento PÃblico: Uma AnÃlise EmpÃrica dos MunicÃpios de MÃdio e Grande Porte do Brasilâ, a partir de dados anuais, no perÃodo de 2006 a 2012, tem como objetivo mensurar o nÃvel de endividamento dos MunicÃpios com populaÃÃo a cima de 100 mil habitantes, a partir do modelo de Painel. Seus resultados mostram que as variÃveis grau de dependÃncia das transferÃncias, gastos com pessoal, dummy referente ao limite de endividamento e a escolaridade do prefeito, obtiveram impactos positivos com relaÃÃo ao endividamento. A variÃvel PIB per capta obteve resultado negativo sobre a mesma, sendo todos os resultados esperados, exceto para a escolaridade do prefeito, onde esperava-se que obtivesse um impacto negativo sobre o nÃvel de endividamento, de acordo com os anos de estudos. / This work includes two papers of mine, which are outlined in the manner of separate chapters and which are supported by distinct methodologies as well, on quantifying fiscal competence and tax effort due the municipalities from northeastern Brazil during 2001 to 2012 and on their public debts. They might reveal something about my motivations: following Battese and Coelli (1995) the first sketches the fundamentals concern fiscal competence attached to the intended municipalities and it makes use of economic modeling called Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Hence, working in plain vanilla SFA we show that all the variables we are considering, that is, population, reporting service, workers officially engaged in companies and valued over services stand in a positive relation to the tax revenues. Regrettably, the results also show that the municipality investments and inflation for each year have reduced the inefficiency concerning tax revenue which is due probably to the well-known Tanzi backwards effect. In addition, near to the tax revenue frontier the tax effort of the mean value of municipalities in northeastern Brazil is 0.83. By means of Panel data and with the aim of explaining the precise measure of public debt produced by municipalities whose population is up to 100 thousand we proceed the second article, which uses basically the same insights from the first one. Once we know that all the variables we are considering had a positive striking on the debt, all the other results were expected, including the negative impact on the GDP. However, what is actually surprising has to do with the formation of the mayor, we thought this would have promptly negative impact on the debt, but the results were otherwise.

Diploma thesis Finance of territorial units in the Czech Republic applies to analyze the self- governing budgets, especially municipalities. The thesis has the theoretical part and the practical one. An approach and function of public budgets and finance are described in the theoretical part. Following part of the thesis is devoting to the Czech budgetary system with the focus to municipal and region budgets. There are analyzed categories of income and expenditures. Budgetary expenditures are compared between municipalities and regions according to allocated field of application, according to the amount of capital expenditures. Another chapter is engaged in current issues in the municipality funding - there were changes in the system of tax distribution from the central government. The second issue is the growing indebtedness of Czech municipalities. The thesis tries to find some recommendations and solutions. The last chapter applies the financial and property analysis for the city of České Budějovice. An economy of the city is assessed according to chosen indicators, ratios and comparisons with budgets and assets between the years 2006 and 2011.