Have State and Local Fiscal Policies Become More Alike? Evidence of Beta Convergence Among Fiscal Policy Variables

Christopher N. Annala
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Christopher N. Annala: State University of New York, Geneseo

Public Finance Review, 2003, vol. 31, issue 2, 144-165

Abstract: This article examines the convergence of state and local fiscal policies among the United States. Based on the standard assumptions of the neoclassical growth model with a public sector, it is shown that state and local fiscal policies have indeed converged over the past 20 years, at a rate substantially faster than real per capita gross state product. These results are contradictory to the Tiebout hypothesis.

Keywords: convergence; fiscal policy; state and local governments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1177/1091142102250327

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