Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47122 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1998
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 850
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper deals with the influence of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking activities of local interest groups. It employs a model where households differ with respect to their endowment with the immobile factor land. Local governments decide about the level of productive infrastructure in their jurisdiction. According to their land endowment, different households benefit to a different degree from the infrastructure. This redistribution effect of local infrastructure gives households an incentive for rent-seeking: Landabundant households seek to influence their government to increase the level of infrastructure whereas land-poor households seek to influence their government to reduce the infrastructure level. As this paper shows, factor mobility and fiscal competition between local governments lead to increasing rent-seeking expenditures for a broad class of cases.
Subjects: 
Factor Mobility
Fiscal Competition
Rent-Seeking
JEL: 
D72
H41
H72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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