Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | |
The Tenable Range of Functions of Local Government | p. 3 |
Federalism and Government Finance | p. 10 |
An Optimal Taxation Approach to Fiscal Federalism | p. 41 |
Who Should Tax, Where, and What? | p. 63 |
The Interstate Exporting of State and Local Taxes: Estimates for 1962 | p. 81 |
A Positive Model of Tax Structure | p. 110 |
The Effect of Federal Tax Deductibility on State and Local Taxes and Spending | p. 131 |
Energy Policy, Taxation of Natural Resources, and Fiscal Federalism | p. 158 |
The Effect of State and Local Taxes on Economic Growth: A Time Series-Cross Section Approach | p. 175 |
Approaches to a Fiscal Theory of Political Federalism | p. 187 |
Public Goods, Efficiency, and Regional Fiscal Equalization | p. 213 |
The Analysis of Revenue Sharing in a New Approach to Collective Fiscal Decisions | p. 227 |
An Economic Model of the Distribution of Project Grants | p. 251 |
Intergovernmental Grants: A Review of the Empirical Literature | p. 274 |
Income and Grant Effects on Local Expenditure: The Flypaper Effect and Other Difficulties | p. 295 |
The Effects of Grants-in-Aid on State and Local Expenditures: The Case of AFDC | p. 317 |
Federalism and Fiscal Equity | p. 347 |
Income Redistribution as a Local Public Good | p. 364 |
Which Level of Government Should Assist the Poor? | p. 388 |
Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System | p. 402 |
Income Redistribution in a Common Labor Market | p. 426 |
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures' | p. 447 |
An Economic Theory of Clubs | p. 456 |
Zoning and Property Taxation in a System of Local Governments' | p. 470 |
The Effects of Property Taxes and Local Public Spending on Property Values: An Empirical Study of Tax Capitalization and the Tiebout Hypothesis | p. 477 |
A Test for Allocative Efficiency in the Local Public Sector | p. 492 |
Economic Competition among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing? | p. 513 |
Budget Spillovers and Fiscal Policy Interdependence: Evidence from the States | p. 535 |
Private Demands for Public Goods | p. 558 |
Micro-Based Estimates of Demand Functions for Local School Expenditures | p. 575 |
Institutional Approaches to Public Expenditure: Empirical Evidence from Swiss Municipalities | p. 598 |
Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Transfers in Less Developed Countries | p. 627 |
Fiscal Decentralization: From Command to Market | p. 646 |
Name Index | p. 719 |
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