The growing complexity of the Future Internet landscape has driven the need for large-scale federations of experimental testbeds that support the next generation of research and experimentation. However, such facilities are typically difficult to sustain in the long term, particularly in the...

Voters dealing with jurisdictional merger decisions face a trade-off between economies of scale and preference costs. Larger jurisdictions may offer cost advantages, yet the downside is that policies in larger units may be less aligned to voter preferences. Our study is the first to provide...

The issue of tax competition in a federation is tackled in this paper by Paul Boothe who examines the recent reforms concerning the financing of Canadian provinces. In 2000 and 2001 nine of the ten Canadian provinces moved from a tax system based on levying taxes as a percentage of the federal...