This paper discusses how state government’s behaviour is affected when the so-called Representative Tax System (RTS) equalization scheme is implemented. In particular, we study the changes in the marginal cost of public funds (MCPF), and in the first order conditions for the optimal provision...

The relationship between public investment and economic is one of the most highly debated issues in economic policy circles in recent years. This topic has been analyzed from several approaches, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. In this paper we present a survey of the main...