In many countries, studies give evidence of a complementary relationship between local spending at different levels. Allowing spatial heterogeneity in the demand behaviour, we show that the usual result of a systematic complementarity between the Municipal and the County spending decisions is...

This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun’s coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period...

This paper deals with the determinants of enterprise creation in the 22 French regions from 1994 to 2003. We then estimate a dynamic panel data model which allows spatial heterogeneity to be modelled and which is compared with a specification without spatial heterogeneity. The estimation results...

Following Bergtrom and Goodman (1973), this paper can be integrated in the set of studies that have estimated the demand for municipal public services. The main innovation in this paper is methodological as we use a Stone Geary utility function to describe the median voter preferences. Unlike...

The main originality of this article is to empirically incorporate the effect of seasonality in estimating the residential water demand function. We use quarterly times series for the period 1980.1 to 2007.4 from Tunisia and a two consumption blocks decomposition (in a lower and in an upper...

Based on a detailed sample of time unbalanced panel data on residential water consumption in the French overseas territory of Réunion, we investigate which water price specification should be included in an econometric analysis of residential water demand. To identify the relevant price...

In this paper, we estimate a residential water demand function for the Reunion island, a French overseas territory which experiences, despite its tropical climate, a lot of stress on this resource. We develop specifications of linear and non linear expenditure systems, taking into account the...

Cet article étudie les dépenses des départements français en distinguant le budget social du budget non social. Les demandes de biens publics locaux, sociaux et non sociaux, émanent d’un électeur contribuable décisif. Ces demandes dépendent des prix fiscaux des biens publics et du...

[fre] Le développement de la coopération intercommunale en France n'a pas remis en cause la finesse du découpage administratif communal. Toutefois, alors que les pouvoirs publics attendaient une réduction des taux d'impôts cumulés, communal et intercommunal, la coopération intercommunale...