Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2021

Identifier/URL

41088788 (Pure)

Abstract

Local governments react to one another in expenditure. However, the existing literature concerning these reactions suffer from one of three problems: timing dynamics, county behaviour, or over aggregation. City‐to‐city interaction estimates are shown to shrink up to 50% when appropriately dealing with dynamics and county behaviour using a dynamic spatial Durbin model with a maximum likelihood estimator. Expenditure disaggregation shows that the majority of categories have no spillover. One category, general government expenditure, is responsible for nearly all of the variation. This finding does not fit well with the existing theories for spatial interaction.

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Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. Papers in Regional Science © 2021 Regional Science Association International.

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

DOI

10.1111/pirs.12600

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