interest, or economic rents. The current regimes give rise to various instate and interstate spillovers, which violate the …

superior when spillovers are weak (strong). Conversely, if linear cost-sharing arrangements are feasible, decentralized …

national policies cause strong spillovers (externalities) to other jurisdictions. Based on this approach, the paper proposes an …

spillovers among jurisdictions. In accordance with previous studies, we show that under the assumption of a fixed capital supply … ; spillovers ; capital supply elasticity …

The aim of the paper is to analyze a model of local public good provision with positive interjurisdictional spillovers … externalities, but also with high spillovers. The key insight of this result is represented by different size of regions, which may … determine an asymmetry among citizens' responses concerning the best institutional setting. -- decentralization ; spillovers …

We examine a symmetric two-district setting with spillovers of local public spending where a spill-in from the foreign … cooperative centralization for different spillovers, complementarities and cost-division rules, and control for the effects of … novelties: In the absence of transfers, welfare in decentralization increases in spillovers, strategic delegation in …

spillovers is developed in which uncertainty over the true preferences of candidates makes strategic delegation impossible …

decisions in order to reduce their region's cost share. When spill-overs are asymmetric, strategic delegation is stronger at the …

This paper analyzes the provision of local public goods with positive spillovers across jurisdictions. If spillovers … are symmetric, the non-cooperative game played by jurisdictions admits a unique equilibrium, and an increase in spillovers … can increase their contribution. When spillovers are asymmetric, equilibrium is unique if spillovers are low, while …