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| Title: | | The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime  |
| Authors: | | Traub, Stefan |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Economics working paper / Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Department of Economics 2006,03 |
| Abstract: | | We state efficiency conditions for the provision of congestable local public goods that diminish individual-specific proprietary risks. The optimum level of such a public service is determined by equating the sum of the reductions of the expected property losses due to a better service level with the marginal costs of the service. The optimum size of the providing local authority in terms of population is obtained where the increase in proprietary risks due to congestion meets the decrease in contributions for the original citizens. As an empirical example, we employ Germany?s crime statistic in order to assess the efficiency of the provision of police services at the state level. |
| Subjects: | | Local Public Goods Congestion Risk Crime Police |
| JEL: | | R50 D61 H41 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, CAU Kiel
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