An Efficiency Rationale for Expenditure Equalization

This paper provides an efficiency rationale for expenditure equalization in federations. It does so by developing a fiscal federalism model with two citizen types; immobile non-workers and mobile workers. Three decision-makers, a federal transfer authority and two states, play a game as Nash compe...

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Main Authors: Petchey, Jeffrey, Petchey, James
Format: Working Paper
Published: Centre for Research in Applied Economics 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23544