Yardstick competition in intergovernmental relationships: Theory and empirical predictions

Economics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 325-333

  Bordignon, Massimo ^a,b   Cerniglia, Floriana ^a   Revelli, Federico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Local property tax; Yardstick competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942540763     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2003.11.014     Document Type: Article

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