The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of revenue decentralization on the provision of infrastructure at the sub-national level. We estimate the effects of revenue decentralization and earmarked grant financing on the level of sub-national infrastructure investment in 20 European...

This paper explores the population distribution across U.S. states over time. We test for Zipf's Law on the size distribution of state populations and Gibrat's Law for the growth of state populations. State populations follow a lognormal distribution more closely than they do a Zipf or Pareto...

In this article, the relationship between gasoline consumption, real GDP, real gasoline price and road infrastructure in China is re-estimated in order to update and extend the estimates documented in the literature. Panel data for 17 Chinese provinces from 2003 to 2009 are analyzed under a...