The Intended Relationship Between Federal Operating Subsidy and Cost

Kofi Obeng and Golam Azam
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Golam Azam: North Carolina A&T State University

Public Finance Review, 1995, vol. 23, issue 1, 72-94

Abstract: There are many studies, including those of J. Pucher et al. and S. C. Anderson, that found higher costs to be associated with transit operating subsidies. However, none of them investigated the effect of state and local federal subsidy formulas on cost efficiency of transit operations. In this article, the subsidy-cost relationship is derived by using the federal operating subsidy formula directly within the transit firm's optimizing framework, and the resulting system of equations is estimated. Our results demonstrate that there exists a positive cost-subsidy relationship that conforms with the previous studies and that the formula results in very little capital bias.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1177/109114219502300103

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