The supply of education quality in a spatial model with asymmetric moving costs

Research in Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 197-214

  Ordine, Patrizia ^a   Rose, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost sharing funding; Forward induction; Perfect Bayesian equilibrium; Spatial models

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949155559     PISSN: 10909443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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