In this paper we explore how political pressures for an increased decentralisation of revenue and expenditure competencies to sub-national governments may affect the degree of interregional redistribution accomplished by the public sector. We do this by focusing on a specific case, that of the...

A key feature of Sutton's theory is that industries evolve to distinct market configurations in terms of concentration depending upon whether the markets have a large size, whether the corresponding products are essentially homogeneous, whether they are differentiated by research and development...

In this paper we explore how political pressures for an increased decentralisation of revenue and expenditure competencies to sub-national governments may affect the degree of interregional redistribution accomplished by the public sector. We do this by focusing on a specific case, that of the...