McMillan, Melville L; Amoako-Tuffour, Joe - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 70 (1988) 1, pp. 45-54
Relatively unique data on the costs of public services for local governments in Victoria, Australia, are used to estimate a system of demand equations and to test alternative specifications of the underlying preferences using a translog model. Symmetry conditions are rejected so the data are not...