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Publikováno v:
Urban Affairs Review. 52:685-713
We revisit the claim that ethnic heterogeneity—the degree to which different ethnic groups make up the population—reduces local government spending on various public goods. Our analysis suggests that heterogeneity does not necessarily reduce loca
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087415587055
https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087415587055
Publikováno v:
Southern Economic Journal. 80:614-632
This article examines the paradox that a supermajority rule in a legislature promotes excessive government spending. We propose a simple conjecture: If rent-seeking coalitions dominate legislative politics and if individual legislators' demands for r
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https://doi.org/10.4284/0038-4038-2012.205
https://doi.org/10.4284/0038-4038-2012.205
Publikováno v:
National Tax Journal. 66:541-569
This paper examines the claim that the adoption of a value-added tax (VAT) increases the size of government. Our analysis suggests that introducing the VAT, despite the fact that it is a relatively...
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https://doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2013.3.02
https://doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2013.3.02
Autor:
Thomas E. Borcherding, Don Allison
Publikováno v:
Public Choice. 156:7-29
Brilliant but little known, in part because his style was dense and crucial papers unpublished, Earl Thompson reformulated standard theory to achieve policy relevance, focusing on significant rent-seeking inefficiencies stemming from private informat
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-013-0088-4
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-013-0088-4
Autor:
Thomas E. Borcherding, Dong (Dan) Lee
Publikováno v:
Public Finance Review. 34:607-636
In the authors' political equilibrium model, regulation is considered an implicit and regressive tax-equivalent alternative to the common and less regressive fiscal alternatives: income, property, and sales taxes. The authors hypothesize that in more
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1091142106291501
https://doi.org/10.1177/1091142106291501
Autor:
Thomas E. Borcherding
Publikováno v:
Public Finance Review. 30:646-666
James M. Buchanan’s contributions to public finance and political economy are surveyed in six areas: (1) debt, fiscal illusion, and Keynesian criticisms; (2) London School of Economics cost approach; (3) methodological individualism and the economi
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https://doi.org/10.1177/109114202238006
https://doi.org/10.1177/109114202238006
Autor:
Thomas E. Borcherding, Darren Filson
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 47:237-257
We examine conditions under which group consumption is likely to involve informal reciprocity agreements rather than a price system. Our model shows that reciprocity agreements are used when transactions costs are high, the good is inexpensive, deman
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https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2681(01)00206-2
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2681(01)00206-2
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Law and Economics. 44:465-480
Antitrust enforcement makes it difficult to test theories of cartel formation because most attempts to form cartels are blocked or kept secret. However, federal laws allow U.S. produce growers to operate marketing cartels through devices called "mark
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https://doi.org/10.1086/322817
https://doi.org/10.1086/322817
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 57:173-182
I Introduction It would require less than the fingers of the two hands to enumerate those who, from Plato down, rank with Henry George among the world's social philosophers...No man...has a right to regard himself as an educated man in social thought
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1998.tb03269.x
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1998.tb03269.x
Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods: Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 2000-2010
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This paper examines the claim that ethnic heterogeneity reduces government spending on various local public goods. Our analysis suggests that higher ethnic heterogeneity does not necessarily reduce local public spending due to two factors: (1) the lo
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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2474194
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2474194