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DeVoe Moore Center Local Regulations Papers

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AUTHOR(S)	PAPER TITLE	DATE	ABSTRACT	FULL (PDF)
Weingast, Barry	"Second Generation Fiscal Federalism: Implications for Decentralized Democratic Governance and Economic Development"	2006		Download
Whitford, Andrew B., Dorothy Daley, and Donlad Haider-Markel	"Checks, Balances, and the Cost of Regulation: Evidence from the American States"	2006	Abstract	Full (296 KB)
Pendall, Rolf, Robert Puentes, and Jonathan Martin	"From Traditional to Reformed: A Review of the Land Use Regulations in the Nation's 50 largest Metropolitan Areas"	08/06	Abstract	Full (2,152 KB)
Hwang, Peter	"Asset Specificity and the Fear of Exploitation"	07/06	Abstract	Full (159 KB)
Evenson, Bengte and William C. Wheaton	"Local Variation in Land Use Regulations"	2003	Abstract	Full (213 KB)
Jeong, Moon-Gi	"Local Choices for Development Impact Fees"	03/05	Abstract	Full (155 KB)
Alesina, Alberto, Reza Baqir and Caroline Hoxby	"Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities"	10/99	Abstract	Full (167 KB)
Berry, Christopher	"Pilling on : The Fiscal Effects of Jurisdictional Overlap"	06/02	Abstract	Full (421KB)
Bollinger, Christopher R. and Keith Ihlanfeldt	"Intrametropolitan Locational Patterns of People and Jobs: Which Government Interventions Make a Difference?"	01/01	Abstract	Full (369 KB)
Cashin, Sheryll	"Localism, Self-Interest and the Tyranny of the Favored"	12/99	Abstract	Full (225 KB)
Cheshire, Paul and Stephen Sheppard	"Welfare Economics of Land Regulation"	02/97	Abstract	Full (155 KB)
Feiock, Richard C.	"A Quasi-Market Theory of Local Development Competition"	09/98	Abstract	Full (169 KB)
Feiock, Richard C. and Jered B. Carr	"Institutional Choice and Local Governance: A Collective Action Framework for Boundary Change"	09/00	Abstract	Full (76 KB)
Fischel, William	"Municipal Corporations, Homeowners and the Benefit View of Property Tax."	04/00	Abstract	Full (124 KB)
Glaeser, Edward L., Matthew E. Kahn, and Jordan Rappaport	"Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?"	04/00	Abstract	Full (3,113 KB)
Grossman, Philip J., Panayiotis Mavros and Robert W. Wassmer	"Public Sector Inefficiency in Large U.S. Cities"	03/96	Abstract	Full (96 KB)
Harrison, Bennett	"It Takes a Region (Or Does It?): The Material Basis for Metropolitanism and Metropolitics"	10/98	Abstract	Full (79 KB)
Helsley, Robert W. and William C. Strange	"Social Interactions and the Institutions of Local Government"	06/99	Abstract	Full (74 KB)
Hoyt, William and Richard Jensen	"Precommitment and State and Local Policy Coordination"	09/94	Abstract	Full (143 KB)
Husock, Howard	"Breaking up the Cities?: Behind the New Urban Secession Movements"	03/98	Abstract	Full (111 KB)
Kahn, Matthew E.	"Measuring the Environmental Consequences of Surbaban Sprawl and Regional Migration"	10/98	Abstract	Full (108 KB)
Kirlin, J. John	"Impact of Institutional Rules on Public Management"	10/01	Abstract	Full (296 KB)
Lewis, Paul G.	"Looking Outward or Turning Inward? Motivations for Development Decisions in Central Cities and Suburbs"	09/99	Abstract	Full (94 KB)
Lowery, David	"And Now For Something Completely Different... Public Choice and Redistribution in the Metropolis"	06/99	Abstract	Full (94 KB)
Lowery, David	"A Transactions Cost Model of Metropolitan Governance: Allocative Versus Redistribution in Urban America"	2000	Abstract	Full (169 KB)
McCabe, Barbara Coyle & Richard C. Feiock	"State Rules and City Institutions: Re-Examining the effects of Tax and Spending Limits"	07/02	Abstract	Full (130 KB)
Matsusaka, John G. and Nolan M. McCarty	"Political Resource Allocation: Benefits and Cots of Voter Initiatives"	05/98	Abstract	Full (253 KB)
Miller, J. Gray and Andrew B. Whitford	"Trust and Incentives in Principal-Agent Negotiations: The Insurance /Incentive Trade-Off"	2001	Abstract	Full (89 KB)
Moe, Terry M.	"Political Control and the Power of the Agent"	02/02	Abstract	Full (229 KB)
Oakerson, Ronald J.	"Governance Structures and Problem-Solving in Metropolitan Areas: Responding to (Downsian) Growth-Related Problems"	06/99	Abstract	Full (43 KB)
Oakerson, Ronald J.	“The Governance Effects of Metropolitan Reform: A Theoretical Inquiry”	10/02	Abstract	Full (145KB)
Ostrom, Elinor	"Context and Collective Action: Four Building Blocks for an Interactive Family of Explanatory Theories"	09/99	Abstract	Full (132 KB)
Page, Scott E.	"On the Emergence of Cities"	02/97	Abstract	Full (281 KB)
Post, Stephanie	"“Local Government Cooperation: The Relationship between Metropolitan Area Government and Geographical Service Provision”	10/02	Abstract	Full ( 299KB)
Quigley, M. John	"The Renaissance in Regional Research"	02/00	Abstract	Full (116 KB)
Rodriguez, B. Daniel	"Municipal Home Rule and the Process of Intrastate Fiscal Competition"	11/00	Abstract	Full (291 KB)
Starrett, David A.	"Mobility and Capitalization in Local Public Finance: A Reassessment"	05/97	Abstract	Full (134 KB)
Stein, Robert and Kenneth N. Bickers	“Inter-local Cooperation and the Distribution of Federal Grant Awards"	10/02	Abstract	Full ( 307KB)
Steinacker, Annette	"Models of Metropolitan Cooperation"	10/02	Abstract	Full (159KB)
Wassmer, Robert W. and Ronald C. Fisher	"Tiebout, Time, and Transition in the Structure of Local Government in the U.S. Metropolitan Areas"	09/00	Abstract	Full (273 KB)
Wegener, Torsten	"Toward a Typology of Regional Leadership Institutions: Examples from the San Francisco Bay Area"	10/01	Abstract	Full (84 KB)
Wood B. Dan and John Bohte	" The Politics of Administrative Design"	02/01	Abstract	Full (154 KB)