This paper investigates within an endogenous growth model how a congested productive governmental input should be financed if exclusion is possible. The instruments are taxes and fees. To create the macroeconomic equilibrium the planner has to ensure production efficiency with the optimal...

Many public goods are characterized by rivalry and/or excludability. This paper introduces both non-excludable and excludable public inputs into a simple endogenous growth model. We derive the equilibrium growth rate and design the optimal tax and user-cost structure. Our results emphasize the...

In this article we analyze the interdependent issues of urbanization, growth, and globalization by presenting key empirical facts and relevant underlying economic theories on each. We look more closely, but without providing a detailed formal analysis, at a model by Baldwin and Forslid (2000)...