Public Goods in a Voluntary Federal Union: Implications of a Participation Constraint

This paper re-examines the question of whether federal ex-post redistribution in terms of public funds leads to under-provision of public goods by adding the assumption that the member states are free to leave the economic federation. We show that federal ex-post redistribution no longer necessarily means under-provision of local and federal public goods.

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Year of publication:	2012-10-18
Authors:	Aronsson, Thomas ; Micheletto, Luca ; Sjögren, Tomas
Institutions:	Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet
Subject:	Public goods \| fiscal federalism \| ex-post redistribution

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Umeå Economic Studies.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Umeå Economic Studies Number 850 7 pages
Classification:	D61 - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; H41 - Public Goods ; H77 - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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