Does local council size affect land development expenditure? Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data
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Keywords
fiscal common-pool problem; council size; government expenditure; regression discontinuity design;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
- H76 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Other Expenditure Categories
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEO-2013-01-19 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-PBE-2013-01-19 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PPM-2013-01-19 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
- NEP-URE-2013-01-19 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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