The paper presents a framework for measuring spillovers resulting from local expenditure
policies. We identify and test for two different types of expenditure spillovers:(i)“benefit …

This paper addresses four fundamental questions about the relationship betweensmart
growth', a fiscally motivated anti-sprawl policy movement, and public finance. Do low …

This book is a broad survey of the literature on public goods. There has been an explosion
of research in the last ten years in a broad variety of-eas in this literature and the time seems …

This paper considers the order that emerges in cities as individuals exchange and pool
rights over resources in pursuit of individual and mutual gain. In his 1937 article The nature …

Municipalities sometimes retain separate police departments and park services while
cooperating in public schooling services with neighboring municipalities. The theoretical …

Motivated by cross-jurisdictional private activities, this study proposes a fiscal spillover
channel to investigate the spatial crowding-out and crowding-in effects of government …

This article introduces Buchanan's comment on Tiebout's “A Pure Theory of Local Public
Expenditures”. It helps us to understand the nature of the relationship between Buchanan …

This paper analyzes the effects of spillovers on the equilibrium population distribution across
jurisdictions in a local public good economy with free mobility. Spillovers are parametrized …

A political jurisdiction may decide to cooperate in public schooling provision with its
neighbors or remain independent. The determinants of the consolidation decision are …

Environmental statutes that initiate devolution frequently contain provisions that allow tiers of
government to control the final assignment of policymaking authority. These provisions may …