The paper examines the effects of local fiscal variables and local economic conditions on exit decisions of Norwegian households. The study takes advantage of a unique survey data set in which respondents evaluate a range of local amenities and report whether they intend to relocate. We find...

When households are immobile among regions, the decentralized provision of public goods that generate interregional benefit spillovers is inefficiently low. A model of interregionial migration is used to study the provision of such services in the presence of free mobility of households. Within...