Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition
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- Stephen Calabrese & Dennis N. Epple & Richard Romano, 2011. "Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition," NBER Working Papers 17251, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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- H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
- H73 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
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