Kessler, Anke S.; Hansen, Nico A.; Lessmann, Christian - In: Review of Economic Studies 78 (2011) 4, pp. 1345-1378
The paper studies the effects and the determinants of interregional redistribution in a model of residential and political choice. We find that paradoxical consequences of interjurisdictional transfers arise if people are mobile: while self-sufficient regions are necessarily identical with...