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Should the Government Finance Public Goods in Rural Areas? A Review of Arguments [PDF]

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This paper reviews three arguments why government should not directly finance public goods provision in the countryside: (1) sorting and voting of residents leads to efficient local public goods provision, (2) community governance better copes with ...
Petrick, Martin
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The Depopulation of Rural Areas and the Farming System [PDF]

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Depopulation of rural areas can entail negative externalities. This paper examines, inter alia, the influence of the farming system on depopulation processes.
Mann, Stefan
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Stable Coalition Structures with Common Decision Scheme [PDF]

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This paper studies the stability of a finite local public goods economy, where a jurisdiction's choice of the public good is given by an exogenous decision scheme.
Guillaume Haeringer
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Price Taking Equilibrium in Club Economies with Multiple Memberships and Unbounded Club Sizes [PDF]

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This paper develops a model of an economy with clubs where individuals may belong to multiple clubs and where there may be ever increasing returns to club size. Clubs may be large, as large as the total agent set.
Myrna Wooders, Nizar Allouch
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Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities [PDF]

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We examine whether partisan political differences have important effects on policy outcomes at the local level using a new panel data set of mayoral elections in the United States.
Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko
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Municipalities secession and uncertainty on public goods provision [PDF]

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This paper investigates the causes of municipalities secession in Brazil. The theoretical modelproposes that the median voter is not fully informed about the efficiency effect of secession on publicgood provision and uses the break up decision undertaken
Arvate, Paulo Roberto   +2 more
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