Sending the pork home: birth town bias in transfers to Italian municipalities
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- Carozzi, Felipe & Repetto, Luca, 2016. "Sending the pork home: Birth town bias in transfers to Italian municipalities," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 42-52.
- Felipe Carozzi & Luca Repetto, 2015. "Sending the Pork Home: Birth Town Bias in Transfers to Italian Municipalities," CESifo Working Paper Series 5554, CESifo.
- Felipe Carozzi & Luca Repetto, 2013. "Sending the pork home: birth town bias in transfers to Italian municipalities," Working Papers 2013/35, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
- Felipe Carozzi & Luca Repetto, 2014. "Sending the Pork Home: Birth Town Bias in Transfers to Italian Municipalities," Working Papers wp2014_1401, CEMFI.
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Keywords
pork-barrel politics; distributive policies; careers in politics; political economy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
- H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-POL-2017-01-15 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-URE-2017-01-15 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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