Bordignon, Massimo; Colombo, Luca; Galmarini, Umberto - In: Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008) 12, pp. 2288-2301
Which government functions should be decentralized (resp. centralized) once lobbying behavior is taken into account? We find that the answer largely depends on how the interests of the regional lobbies are positioned with respect to the function to be decentralized (resp. centralized). When...