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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