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Revenue sharing and local public expenditure: old questions, new answers


Abstract: A review of the economic literature on the impact of revenue sharing on local government expenditures, a critique of previous explanations of this pattern, and a summary of a new bureaucratic theory.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Part of Series: Economic Review

Publication Date: 1985

Issue: Q II

Pages: 13-27