Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84147 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4384
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity is financed by budget-balancing user fees, decentralized capacity choices (made by individual zones within the city) generate the social optimum despite the presence of spillovers. This conclusion is closely tied to the famous self-financing theorem of transporation economics.
Subjects: 
decentralization
road pricing
congestion
spillovers
JEL: 
H70
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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