Akheil Singla
Biographic Data
| ID | 4398863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akheil Singla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akheil |
| FAMILY NAME | Singla |
| SIGNATURE | SINGLA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3334-0728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Voter Responsiveness to Signals of Local Government Financial Health
Local elected leaders make decisions that affect service delivery and quality of life. But budgetary constraints mean that cities cannot indefinitely expand and improve services. Maintaining fiscal balance may be prudent, but doing so can impair service delivery. How are elected officials incentivized to make those trade-offs? Do voters actually care about the financial health of their city government? This research examines these questions in tw…
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales
This article combines unconditional quantile regressions with difference-in-differences to study the distributive effects of a foreign buyer tax (FBT) on home prices in New South Wales (NSW). The main results reveal that the FBT reduces house prices in NSW but only among the more expensive houses located in desirable neighborhoods of Sydney and with a relatively high share of foreign-born population. We find evidence that the FBT reduces transact…
Decree or democracy? State takeovers and local government financial outcomes
Many states possess the authority to intervene in local fiscal emergencies, in some cases curtailing decision‐making powers of local officials through the appointment of an emergency financial manager. Previous research has recognized that these managers can push through unpopular reforms that may improve financial health but come at the expense of local control and democratic accountability. We assess the financial outcomes after eight recent st…
Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana
Revenue‐motivated policing is a common explanation for law enforcement behavior. This means in times of fiscal stress police alter their behavior to increase the financial returns to their actions. But does variation in the institutional features of local governments lead to variation in law enforcement behavior? Using a plausibly exogenous measure of revenue need, this research explores how fiscal institutions that determine a local government's…
Helping or Hurting? The Efficacy of Municipal Bankruptcy
Local governments facing extreme fiscal stress have few options. One that has historically been rare is filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The limited number of cases has prevented any systematic study of municipal bankruptcy. But given the results of bankruptcy for individuals, there are reasons to believe that bankruptcy can provide a fresh financial start for local governments. This study leverages six municipal bankruptcies in the years immedia…
Race, Representation, and Revenue: Reliance on Fines and Forfeitures in City Governments
Historically, revenue associated with things like traffic citations—termed fines and forfeitures—has made up an insignificant portion of city revenue. In recent years, however, cities are increasingly reliant on these revenues. This changed without fanfare, meaning there is little understanding of how or why it occurred. One potential explanation is budgetary, meaning cities rely more on fines due to increased fiscal stress or demand for public s…
Financial Engineering by City Governments: Factors Associated with the Use of Debt-Related Derivatives
Despite significant coverage in the financial press in recent years, financial engineering by city governments via the use of financial derivatives such as interest rate swaps remain an understudied area of urban financial policy. Indeed, press accounts and other case or conceptual urban studies research emphasizing the downside of these transactions are some of the only sources of information on these instruments. These stories and studies often…
Paying for infrastructure in the post-recession era: Exploring the use of alternative funding and financing tools
While municipalities in the United States face many challenges, one of the most critical is an aging stock of infrastructure. Concurrent with this issue is a new fiscal reality where local governments face unfunded pension liabilities, difficulties in raising revenues, and potentially declining state and federal support. As a result, meeting infrastructure needs may require alternative strategies (e.g., green bonds or social impact bonds, public-…
Constrained or creative? Changes in financial condition and entrepreneurial orientation in public organizations
Public managers and organizations are often encouraged to take a proactive role in finding solutions to the challenges that face their communities. These challenges require meeting increasingly high expectations for public service provision with ever reducing resources. This research investigates the relationship between change in resource constraints—as measured by longer and shorter term financial condition—and the entrepreneurial orientation o…
Race, Representation, and Revenue: Reliance on Fines and Forfeitures in City Governments
Historically, revenue associated with things like traffic citations—termed fines and forfeitures—has made up an insignificant portion of city revenue. In recent years, however, cities are increasingly reliant on these revenues. This changed without fanfare, meaning there is little understanding of how or why it occurred. One potential explanation is budgetary, meaning cities rely more on fines due to increased fiscal stress or demand for public s…
Financial Engineering by City Governments: Factors Associated with the Use of Debt-Related Derivatives
Despite significant coverage in the financial press in recent years, financial engineering by city governments via the use of financial derivatives such as interest rate swaps remain an understudied area of urban financial policy. Indeed, press accounts and other case or conceptual urban studies research emphasizing the downside of these transactions are some of the only sources of information on these instruments. These stories and studies often…
Constrained or creative? Changes in financial condition and entrepreneurial orientation in public organizations
Public managers and organizations are often encouraged to take a proactive role in finding solutions to the challenges that face their communities. These challenges require meeting increasingly high expectations for public service provision with ever reducing resources. This research investigates the relationship between change in resource constraints—as measured by longer and shorter term financial condition—and the entrepreneurial orientation o…
Decree or democracy? State takeovers and local government financial outcomes
Many states possess the authority to intervene in local fiscal emergencies, in some cases curtailing decision‐making powers of local officials through the appointment of an emergency financial manager. Previous research has recognized that these managers can push through unpopular reforms that may improve financial health but come at the expense of local control and democratic accountability. We assess the financial outcomes after eight recent st…
Paying for infrastructure in the post-recession era: Exploring the use of alternative funding and financing tools
While municipalities in the United States face many challenges, one of the most critical is an aging stock of infrastructure. Concurrent with this issue is a new fiscal reality where local governments face unfunded pension liabilities, difficulties in raising revenues, and potentially declining state and federal support. As a result, meeting infrastructure needs may require alternative strategies (e.g., green bonds or social impact bonds, public-…
Voter Responsiveness to Signals of Local Government Financial Health
Local elected leaders make decisions that affect service delivery and quality of life. But budgetary constraints mean that cities cannot indefinitely expand and improve services. Maintaining fiscal balance may be prudent, but doing so can impair service delivery. How are elected officials incentivized to make those trade-offs? Do voters actually care about the financial health of their city government? This research examines these questions in tw…
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales
This article combines unconditional quantile regressions with difference-in-differences to study the distributive effects of a foreign buyer tax (FBT) on home prices in New South Wales (NSW). The main results reveal that the FBT reduces house prices in NSW but only among the more expensive houses located in desirable neighborhoods of Sydney and with a relatively high share of foreign-born population. We find evidence that the FBT reduces transact…
Constrained or creative? Changes in financial condition and entrepreneurial orientation in public organizations
Public managers and organizations are often encouraged to take a proactive role in finding solutions to the challenges that face their communities. These challenges require meeting increasingly high expectations for public service provision with ever reducing resources. This research investigates the relationship between change in resource constraints—as measured by longer and shorter term financial condition—and the entrepreneurial orientation o…
Paying for infrastructure in the post-recession era: Exploring the use of alternative funding and financing tools
While municipalities in the United States face many challenges, one of the most critical is an aging stock of infrastructure. Concurrent with this issue is a new fiscal reality where local governments face unfunded pension liabilities, difficulties in raising revenues, and potentially declining state and federal support. As a result, meeting infrastructure needs may require alternative strategies (e.g., green bonds or social impact bonds, public-…
Race, Representation, and Revenue: Reliance on Fines and Forfeitures in City Governments
Historically, revenue associated with things like traffic citations—termed fines and forfeitures—has made up an insignificant portion of city revenue. In recent years, however, cities are increasingly reliant on these revenues. This changed without fanfare, meaning there is little understanding of how or why it occurred. One potential explanation is budgetary, meaning cities rely more on fines due to increased fiscal stress or demand for public s…
Financial Engineering by City Governments: Factors Associated with the Use of Debt-Related Derivatives
Despite significant coverage in the financial press in recent years, financial engineering by city governments via the use of financial derivatives such as interest rate swaps remain an understudied area of urban financial policy. Indeed, press accounts and other case or conceptual urban studies research emphasizing the downside of these transactions are some of the only sources of information on these instruments. These stories and studies often…
Helping or Hurting? The Efficacy of Municipal Bankruptcy
Local governments facing extreme fiscal stress have few options. One that has historically been rare is filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The limited number of cases has prevented any systematic study of municipal bankruptcy. But given the results of bankruptcy for individuals, there are reasons to believe that bankruptcy can provide a fresh financial start for local governments. This study leverages six municipal bankruptcies in the years immedia…
Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana
Revenue‐motivated policing is a common explanation for law enforcement behavior. This means in times of fiscal stress police alter their behavior to increase the financial returns to their actions. But does variation in the institutional features of local governments lead to variation in law enforcement behavior? Using a plausibly exogenous measure of revenue need, this research explores how fiscal institutions that determine a local government's…
Decree or democracy? State takeovers and local government financial outcomes
Many states possess the authority to intervene in local fiscal emergencies, in some cases curtailing decision‐making powers of local officials through the appointment of an emergency financial manager. Previous research has recognized that these managers can push through unpopular reforms that may improve financial health but come at the expense of local control and democratic accountability. We assess the financial outcomes after eight recent st…
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales
This article combines unconditional quantile regressions with difference-in-differences to study the distributive effects of a foreign buyer tax (FBT) on home prices in New South Wales (NSW). The main results reveal that the FBT reduces house prices in NSW but only among the more expensive houses located in desirable neighborhoods of Sydney and with a relatively high share of foreign-born population. We find evidence that the FBT reduces transact…
Voter Responsiveness to Signals of Local Government Financial Health
Local elected leaders make decisions that affect service delivery and quality of life. But budgetary constraints mean that cities cannot indefinitely expand and improve services. Maintaining fiscal balance may be prudent, but doing so can impair service delivery. How are elected officials incentivized to make those trade-offs? Do voters actually care about the financial health of their city government? This research examines these questions in tw…
Business (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Finance (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Finance (4 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (4 works) · Housing Market and Economics (4 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (3 works) · Public economics (3 works) · Revenue (3 works)