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The Optimal Provision of Local Public Goods in a Metropolitan Area with Flexible Jurisdictional Boundaries.

In this paper, we analyze the optimal structure of a monocentric city that has multiple jurisdictions. The cost of providing a public good depends on both the area of the jurisdiction and the quality of the service, both of which are endogenous variables. We show that the optimal quality of the publ...

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Publicado en:Journal of Regional Science Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 349 - 360
Autor principal: Okamoto, Ryosuke
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell May 2009
Materias:
Municipal services
Industrial location
Resource allocation > Mathematical models
Metropolitan government
Mathematical models
Local government
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Sumario:In this paper, we analyze the optimal structure of a monocentric city that has multiple jurisdictions. The cost of providing a public good depends on both the area of the jurisdiction and the quality of the service, both of which are endogenous variables. We show that the optimal quality of the public good decreases as distance from the central business district (CBD) increases if the public good and the housing lot are substitutes, and may increase if they are complements. The optimal population density always decreases as distance from the CBD increases. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.