Groenewold, Nicolaas; Hagger, Alfred J. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 35 (2005) 1, pp. 38-63
regional governments. We use a model that has two regions, each with households, firms, and a regional government as well as a … federal government. The households, firms, and regional governments are all optimizers--households maximize utility, firms … maximize profits, and we assume that regional governments are empire-builders in that they choose their expenditure and tax …