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Tiebout's Wasteful Local Expenditure Theory/Solving the Financing and Pricing Problems of Public Goods

Choi, Hak - 2014

This paper attempts to achieve three targets: First, to prove that Tiebout's local expenditure theory is wasteful; Second, to show how private firms can efficiently supply public goods; Third, to work out the optimal pricing policy for using public goods. In addition, this paper rejects setting...

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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth

Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2021

We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...

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Information and targeted spending

Eguia, Jon X.; Nicolò, Antonio - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 14 (2019) 2, pp. 373-402

We present an electoral theory on the public provision of local public goods to an imperfectly informed electorate. We show that electoral incentives lead to greater spending if the electorate is not well informed. A more informed electorate induces candidates to target funds only to specific...

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Stimulating the Vote : ARRA Road Spending and Vote Share

Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017

This paper estimates the impact of public good spending on voting behavior in the United States, using a quasi-experimental design and the distribution of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) road improvement projects across the state of New Jersey. I find an approximate 1.7 percentage...

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Immigration and provision of public goods : evidence at the local level in the U.S.

Mayda, Anna Maria; Senses, Mine Zeynep; Steingress, Walter - 2023 - Last updated: December 19, 2023

Using U.S. county-level data from 1990 to 2010, we study the causal impact of immigration on the provision of local public goods. We uncover substantial heterogeneity across immigrants with different skills, mainly due to the asymmetric impact immigrants have on the per capita tax base and local...

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Motivate the Crowd or Crowd-Them Out? The Impact of Local Government Spending on the Voluntary Provision of a Green Public Good

Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin - 2022

Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their pro-environmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that...

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Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation

Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …

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Inequality, institutions, and cooperation

Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020

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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...

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The Tragedy of Corruption. Corruption as a Social Dilemma

Chen, Yefeng - 2016

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective failure is …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the tragedy of corruption altogether …

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