La Reunion Island is facing to specific difficulties in supplying drinking water. In the western part of this french departement drincking water is lacking. In this context, well-suited policies require to know perfectly households consumption behavior. To this end, the household water demand...

[eng] The Periurban Dynamic and Local Government Expenditure: A Causality Analysis . by Marie-Estelle Binet . This paper proposes new econometric methodology to test for tax competition between local authorities based on greater local government expenditure. A Granger analysis is made of the...

[fre] Cet article s'inscrit dans le champ des choix publics. On y analyse le comportement des élus locaux pendant la durée de leur mandat, en distinguant les périodes électorale et non électorale. Les conditions d’occurrence et les propriétés du cycle budgétaire électoral sont ainsi...

This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun’s coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period...

This paper deals with the determinants of enterprise creation in the 22 French regions from 1994 to 2003. We then estimate a dynamic panel data model which allows spatial heterogeneity to be modelled and which is compared with a specification without spatial heterogeneity. The estimation results...

In La Réunion island, french municipalities are facing to specific difficulties in supplying drinking water. In the western part of this french department drinking water is lacking and is exposed to salwater intrusion. In this context, well-suited policies require to know perfectly households...

This paper aims to test the existence of vertical interactions in terms of public spending between overlapping local jurisdictions in France using a data set of 110 French municipalities and their corresponding departments in 2001 and 2005. To do so, we consider that demand for municipal...

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...

The main originality of this article is to empirically incorporate the effect of seasonality in estimating the residential water demand function. We use quarterly times series for the period 1980.1 to 2007.4 from Tunisia and a two consumption blocks decomposition (in a lower and in an upper...