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Sorting Charles Tiebout
Singleton, John D. - 2014
stabilization of postwar public good theory, despite Tiebout's engagement with key figures in its construction. Moreover, his death …A substantial and diverse literature in economics traces its intellectual roots to Charles Tiebout's 1956 article, “The … Pure Theory of Local Expenditure.” Its present recognition, frequently attributed to originating the idea of “voting with …
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Tiebout sorting with progressive income taxation and a fiscal equalization scheme
Kuhlmey, Florian - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-21
This paper develops a model of Tiebout sorting with decentrally determined progressive income taxation and a built …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269796
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Size and soft budget constraints
Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 2006
There is much evidence against the so-called too big to fail hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...
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Kant and Lindahl
Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2021
Wicksell (1896) and Lindahl (1919) analyzed the public provision of public goods through parliamentary negotiation. Roemer (2010, 2019) applied Kant’s (1785) categorical imperative to the private provision of public goods by voluntary contributions. They coincide in yielding efficient...
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Why Markets Do Not Fail. Buchanan on Voluntary Cooperation and Externalities
Marciano, Alain - 2010
economist, James Buchanan, who systematically tried to show that externalities should not be viewed as a problem for market … efficiency. The central argument Buchanan used to defend markets was the human propensity to internalise the external effects of … able to show the remarkable consistency of Buchanan's claims about externalities, even though he developed them in a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135502
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Why markets do not fail : Buchanan on voluntary cooperation and externalities
Maricano, Alain - 2010
economist, James Buchanan, who systematically tried to show that externalities should not be viewed as a problem for market … efficiency. The central argument Buchanan used to defend markets was the human propensity to internalise the external effects of … to show the remarkable consistency of Buchanan's claims about externalities, even though he developed them in a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603394
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Why markets do not fail. Buchanan on voluntary cooperation and externalities
Marciano, Alain - Center for the History of Political Economy - 2010
economist, James Buchanan, who systematically tried to show that externalities should not be viewed as a problem for market … efficiency. The central argument Buchanan used to defend markets was the human propensity to internalise the external effects of … able to show the remarkable consistency of Buchanan's claims about externalities, even though he developed them in a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720645
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Why markets do not fail. Buchanan on voluntary cooperation and externalities
Marciano, Alain - 2010
economist, James Buchanan, who systematically tried to show that externalities should not be viewed as a problem for market … efficiency. The central argument Buchanan used to defend markets was the human propensity to internalise the external effects of … able to show the remarkable consistency of Buchanan's claims about externalities, even though he developed them in a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592183
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Local public good provision, municipal consolidation, and national transfers
Dur, Robert A. J.; Staal, Klaas - 2006
We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighboring district,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371075
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Chapter 29 Local public goods and clubs
Scotchmer, Suzanne - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 1997-2042). 2002
I discuss recent contributions to the theory of group formation and the provision of jointly consumed public goods and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024860