The flypaper effect revisited

Fernando Aragon

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Abstract: This paper argues that there is nothing anomalous about the flypaper effect. I develop a simple median voter model of government spending with costly tax collection that predicts the flypaper effect and provide a quantifiable measure of its magnitude. Using the model insights and previous estimates, I show that a tax rate between 8% to 16% would account for the flypaper effect observed in U.S. subnational governments.

Keywords: flypaper effect; intergovernmental transfers; public finance; fiscal decentralization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E6 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2009-01
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Related works:
Working Paper: Local Spending, Transfers and Costly Tax Collection (2012)
Working Paper: The Flypaper Effect Revisited (2009)
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