Luelfesmann, Christoph; Kessler, Anke; Myers, Gordon M. - In: Journal of Public Economics 124 (2015) C, pp. 18-29
The paper studies a federal system where (a) a region provides non-contractible inputs into the social benefits from a public policy project with spillovers to other regions, and (b) where political bargaining between different levels of government may ensure efficient decision making ex post....