County capital cities, county public finance and county economic geography

Kristof Dascher

Economics of Governance, 2004, vol. 5, issue 3, 213-233

Abstract: We are interested in the county government’s role for the county seat economy. Our suggestion is this: Rather than discuss changes in county seat location at a given budget (representing a rare natural experiment), we should look at changes in county budget holding fixed county seat location (yielding a steady flow of observations). In the paper’s model changes in the county budget translate into changes in county seat employment. In the paper’s empirical test against a sample of German county seats we find it difficult to reject this. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004

Keywords: Capital cities; county public finance; urban growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/s10101-004-0076-8

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