The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that effect municipal expenditures in Ontario. Using multiple regression techniques, we find that regionalization has no significant impact on total per capita expenditures.

The debate over the efficacy of the dichotomous choice contingent valuation methodology for eliciting the public's values for environmental improvements is on-going. An important issue is the effect of the question sequence. This paper uses a double bounded dichotomous choice suvey instrument to...