Ex ante free mobility, ex post immobility, and time consistency in a federal system

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 445-460

  Mitsui, Kiyoshi ^a   Sato, Motohiro ^b  

^a MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interregional transfers; Time consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648584     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(00)00156-0     Document Type: Article

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