Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22008 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper No. 2006-03
Publisher: 
Kiel University, Department of Economics, Kiel
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

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