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This book provides a rigorous course to the theory of intermediate microeconomics. It includes not only the basic … traditional theory, but also a ¡°From the Literature¡± box in each chapter directing students to applications of the theory. The … theory is developed axiomatically, with optional sections using one-variable calculus included for interested readers. A …
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framework for economic analysis of demand determinants and supply relationships in an economy of surplus labour supply …
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This paper explores the impact of Malian migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of local public goods in Mali. To this end, we compute an original dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localize their...
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The paper is devoted to the analysis of a correlation between competition and monopoly in the production of local goods. Necessity of organizing production of some local goods by natural monopolization of industry is proved. The author differentiates constant and temporary natural monopolies.
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We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district,...
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We model two municipalities providing infrastructures to their citizens and the benefits of infrastructures spillover from one municipality to the other through two channels: the more the neighbors provide infrastructure service, the less each municipality will spend for the same kind of public...
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Decentralization reforms have been the overwhelming response to failures in the targeting of public resources by the central state in developing countries. The policy debate on decentralization typically revolves around several a priori hypotheses on how the design of formal institutions of...
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In this monograph several aspects of externalities in cities are analyzed using extensions of a standard residential land use model. Topics covered are optimal and market city sizes, local public goods, traffic congestion, externalities between different types of households, and the growth of a...
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Fiscal packages usually capitalize into house prices. But if enough land for construction is available, housing developers can supply new houses and capitalization may disappear. We provide a theoretical model in which income taxes and public services capitalize at lower rates when housing...
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