Following Bergtrom and Goodman (1973), this paper can be integrated in the set of studies that have estimated the demand for municipal public services. The main innovation in this paper is methodological as we use a Stone Geary utility function to describe the median voter preferences. Unlike...

Following Borcherding and Deacon [1972] and Bergstrom and Goodman [1973], a sizeable empirical literature has used the median voter model to analyze local spending behaviors. The main innovation in this paper is methodological as the median voter ?s satisfaction is described by a Stone-Geary...