Issue Information

• Date: 01 August 2016
• Published date: 01 August 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/faam.12098

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Financial Accountability & Management

August 2016 Vol. 32 No. 3

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE ON A PRIVATE SECTOR FAILURE, A PUBLIC

SECTOR CRISIS – REFLECTIONS ON THE GREAT RECESSION

Special Issue Editors: Ron Hodges and Irvine Lapsley

A Private Sector Failure, a Public Sector Crisis – Reflections on the

Great Recession

by RON HODGES AND IRVINE LAPSLEY 265

Precarious Investments and Blame Gaming – Adverse Effects and

the Inherent Danger of Simplification

by LEVI G˚

ARSETH-NESBAKK AND FRODE KJÆRLAND 281

The Impact of Transparency on the Cost of Sovereign Debt in

Times of Economic Crisis

by BERNARDINO BENITO,MAR

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IA-DOLORES GUILLAM´

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AND FRANCISCO BASTIDA

309

Italian Municipalities and the Fiscal Crisis: Four Strategies for

Muddling Through

by CARMELA BARBERA,ENRICO GUARINI AND ILEANA STECCOLINI 335

Delegation in Hard Times: The Financial Management of Arm’s

Length Bodies in the UK

by KATHERINE TONKISS 362