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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization

Hatfield, John William - 2008

We revisit the classic problem of tax competition in the context of federal nations, and derive a positive theory of …

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods

Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...

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Intergenerational Fiscal Constitutions : How to Protect Future Generations Using Land Taxes and Federalism

Conley, John P. - 2001

This paper studies how to design a fiscal constitution that, by capitalizing intergenerational spillovers into land values, is able to protect future generations from expropriation and to generate optimal investment in intergenerational public goods. In particular, we study how to accomplish...

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Market Mechanisms for Policy Decisions : Tools for the European Union

Casella, Alessandra - 2000

The thesis of this paper is that more transparent, rule-bound and subtle mechanisms for policy coordination will be needed to ensure the success of an enlarged European Union. A common policy is a public good with distributional implications. Economists have developed a large number of plausible...

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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Epple, Dennis - 2000

Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...

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Market Provision of Public Goods : The Case of Broadcasting

Anderson, Simon P. - 2000

This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...

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Educational Production

Lazear, Edward P. - 1999

their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … ranges away from equilibrium levels will adversely affect educational output. The theory argues for a particular non … by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested …

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Changing the Price of Pork : The Impact of Local Cost Sharing on Legislators' Demand for Distributive Public Goods

DelRossi, Alison F. - 1998

The provision of public services through national legislatures gives legislators the chance to fund locally-beneficial public projects using a shared national tax base. Nationally-financed, local public goods will be purchased at a subsidized price below marginal cost and may be inefficiently...

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Openness, Country Size and the Government

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

This paper shows that smaller countries have larger public sectors as a share of GDP, and are also more open to trade. These empirical observations are consistent with recent theoretical models explaining country formation and break up

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Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related datasets: US cities, US metropolitan areas, and US urban counties. Results show that...

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