Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Feld, Lars P. - In: Journal of Public Economics 93 (2009) 1-2, pp. 35-47
The fiscal commons problem is one of the most prominent explanations of excessive spending in political economics. For a panel of the 26 Swiss cantons over the 1980-1998 periods, this paper explores the role of fragmented governments on fiscal policy outcomes. We distinguish between two variants...