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The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....
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Decentralizing the allocation of public goods by giving funds directly to communities takes advantage of local information concerning needs, but decreases the accountability over how funds are used; leaving funds open to misuse or capture by local elites. In Indonesia, the World Bank attempts to...
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We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the observability of charities' location such that each donor...
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-best allocation and show efficiency can be implemented with decentralization using head taxes. We calibrate the model and compare … decentralization and property taxation are large, dissipating most if not all the potential welfare gains that efficient … decentralization could achieve. In property tax equilibrium centralization is frequently more efficient! An externality in community …
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-best allocation and show efficiency can be implemented with decentralization using head taxes. We calibrate the model and compare … decentralization and property taxation are large, dissipating most if not all the potential welfare gains that efficient … decentralization could achieve. In property tax equilibrium centralization is frequently more efficient! An externality in community …
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