This article provides an empirical comparison of the level of education spending under three different institutional structures of spending control. From least to most centralized, these are local control of spending with overlapping Jurisdictions, local control with nonoverlapping...

Alberta government resource revenues are highly volatile. Adjustment of government spending to shifts in revenues imposes social and economic costs. Using simulations, we find the establishment in the early 1970s of a rule-based Alberta government resource revenue stabilization fund could have...

Alberta government needs a revamped resource revenue stabilization fund to overcome the effects of wild swings in resource revenue and spending.Energy prices change substantially and unpredictably, causing revenue planning trouble for the Alberta government. Adjusting to these movements...

This paper employs a maximizing framework, consistent with the axioms of consumer preference, to analyze local government's choice of spending on different social services. Within this framework, it is possible to include both block-funding and cost-sharing intergovernment transfer schemes....

The impact on high school enrollment of minimum wages and different types of education spending is examined empirically using Canadian provincial-level data. Increases in the minimum wage are shown to have a significant negative effect on the enrollment rates of 16- and 17-year-old males and...

The absolute and relative impact of current quality and reputation variables on consumer decisions are examined using data from the market for Bordeaux wine. The estimates indicate that a model of consumer decision making which incorporates information on reputation (past quality) and collective...

This paper uses constituency-level political campaign expenditures to analyze the impact of competition on advertising. A theoretical model, based on expected utility maximization, predicts an uncertain impact of increased competition on campaign spending. The direction of this impact is tested...

Health spending, the largest component of provincial government spending, has risen significantly over the past decade. It has been asserted that larger health expenditures have caused provincial governments to spend less on other types of government services. Using a panel of province-level...

This paper examines whether observed "structural shifts" in the money demand function could be the result of agent heterogeneity due to different household income levels. Following the methodology of T. M. Stoker (1986), income distribution variables are found to be significant determinants of...