ABOUT THIS BOOKThis is volume 45 issue 2-3 of Municipal Finance Journal. Municipal Finance Journal covers the full range of issues facing professionals who work in state and local finance and tax-exempt financing. In each quarterly issue, leading practitioners and researchers address the complicated interplay of legal, market, economic and political perspectives that affect public finance. MFJ brings you in-depth coverage of financing strategies for statutory authorities, health care institutions, private universities and other tax-exempt issuers and the latest research on contemporary municipal, county and state fiscal issues and the acquisition, allocation and management of financial resources in a competitive capital marketplace.