Non-cooperative households and the size and composition of public expenditure

Economics of Governance

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-81

  Anderberg, Dan ^a   Balestrino, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Household production; In kind transfers; Non cooperative household; Public expenditure; Voting participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750898618     PISSN: 14356104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10101-006-0016-x     Document Type: Article

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