Discussion paper

DP1624 Interjurisdictional Competition and the Efficiency of the Public Sector: The Triumph of the Market over the State?

It has been argued in the literature that interjurisdictional competition forces the public sector to increase its efficiency and thus helps to tame Leviathan governments. The paper addresses this hypothesis by means of a simple tax-competition model with a Leviathan state. It is seen that the effects of increased factor mobility on the efficiency of the public sector are ambiguous. A calibration of the model shows that a reduction in public-sector efficiency is possible for parameter constellations which are not unrealistic.

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Citation

Rauscher, M (1997), ‘DP1624 Interjurisdictional Competition and the Efficiency of the Public Sector: The Triumph of the Market over the State?‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 1624. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp1624