Buettner, Thiess; Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 1, pp. 16-21
This paper studies how size-induced cost differences in the provision of local public goods affect the efficient level of public spending. Since public goods are non-rival in consumption, the per-capita cost of a given level of public good provision is lower in more populous jurisdictions. We...
