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Growth and Change, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT While numerous studies have examined tax increment financing (TIF), most focus on its impact on job creation and property value growth. This paper addresses a key gap in the literature by investigating the effect of TIF on local income. Utilizing a unique dataset on income measures for Iowa school districts from 2003 to 2018, we employ two‐way‐
Yoon‐Jung Choi, Phuong Nguyen‐Hoang
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Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 951-964, September 2025.ABSTRACT Territorial reforms of administrative boundaries primarily aim at pursuing cost and administrative efficiency objectives, but their impact on the political engagement of local communities remains unclear. Moreover, while amalgamations have been widely studied, little is known about the effects of territorial fragmentation.
Augusto Cerqua, Dante Di Matteo
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On the Relative Contributions of National and Regional Institutions to Economic Development
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 1118-1136, September 2025.ABSTRACT Institutional quality is recognized as a fundamental driver of long‐run growth (Acemoglu et al. 2005) and it has been widely studied at both country and regional levels in the economic growth literature. Nevertheless, the literature is scant on the question of how this relationship behaves when the hierarchical structure of regions and ...
Daniel Aparicio‐Pérez +3 more
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The Productivity of Schools and Other Local Public Goods Providers [PDF]
I construct an agency model of local public goods producers with special reference to public schools. The model assumes that households make Tiebout choices among jurisdictions, but it has more realistic assumptions about information and the cost of ...
Caroline M. Hoxby
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Fostering Urban Climate Transition Through Innovative Governance Coordination
Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 631-646, August 2025.ABSTRACT The role of cities in addressing the challenge of climate change is growing and becoming more noticeable in global debates and actions on the ground. However, transformative innovations needed for addressing complex and wicked societal challenges cannot be achieved by cities alone and require concerted efforts also at national and ...
Kateryna Pereverza +2 more
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Voting by Ballots and Feet in the Laboratory [PDF]
This paper provides laboratory evidence on the efficiency-enhancing properties of the Tiebout model as a decentralized system of public goods provision. Tiebout (1956) shows that if a sufficient number of local communities exist to accommodate different ...
Alessandro Innocenti, Chiara Rapallini
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The efficiency of “quasimarkets”—decentralized public goods provision subjected to Tiebout competition—is a staple of public choice conventional wisdom.
Boettke, Peter +2 more
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The Law of Demand in Tiebout Economies [PDF]
We consider a general equilibrium local public goods economy in which agents have two distinguishing characteristics. The first is 'crowding type', which is publicly observable and provides direct costs or benefits to the jurisdiction (coalition or firms)
Cartwright, Edward +2 more
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Formation of Collective Decision-Making Units: Stability and a Solution [PDF]
We study how individuals divide themselves into coalitions and choose a public alternative for each coalition. When preferences have consecutive support and coalition feasible sets are positively population- responsive, the proposed consecutive ...
Fan-chin Kung
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Dynamic club formation with coordination [PDF]
, 2002 We present a dynamic model of jurisdiction formation in a society of identical people. The process is described by a Markov chain that is defined by myopic optimization on the part of the players.
Arnold, Tone, Wooders, Myrna Holtz
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