Economic competition and political competition: An empirical note

Abstract

This paper has examined the proposition that more concentrated or consolidated metropolitan areas will produce public goods less efficiently than if there were a greater degree of interjurisdictional competition. The empirical evidence garnered in Section 3 suggests that interjurisdictional competition does tend to reduce the cost of providing local public services and, consequently, local government expenditure levels. Copyright Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1983