Per-capita public expenditures and population size: A non-parametric analysis using French data

Public Choice

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 429-445

  Breunig, Robert ^a   Rocaboy, Yvon ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Congestion; Local Public Economics; Semi parametric econometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349088928     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9304-z     Document Type: Article

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