The 'Flypaper Effect' in Presence of Spatial Interdependence : Evidence from Argentinean Municipalities

• Tác giả: Pablo Acosta
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 016.98 Bibliographies and catalogs of works on specific subjects or in specific disciplines
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 299012
• Chủ đề: 1. Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses; 2. State and Local Budget and Expenditures H720; 3. State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue H710; 4. Transportation O180

Tóm tắt

The "flypaper effect", when an unconditional lump-sum grant to a local government increases spending in a greater proportion than an equivalent raise in local income, has been extensively documented in the literature. This paper shows new estimates in the presence of spatial dependence, when local spending is not independent from its neighbor jurisdictions' behavior. Using county-level data for Buenos Aires (Argentina), this study shows that while the "flypaper effect" still holds true in the presence of spillover effects or mimic behavior across jurisdictions, it could be overestimated in the presence of spatial interdependence.