Grants and Marginal Cost of Public Funding: Empirical Evidence for Local Governments in Brazil

Abstract This paper documents empirical evidence on price-effect caused by lumpsum grants for local governments in Brazil between 2006 to 2010. Dahlby (2011) demonstrates theoretically that lump-sum grants can reduce the cost of public goods provision (price-effect), in addition to the traditional i...

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Main Authors: Enlinson Mattos, Rafael Cardim, Ricardo Politi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Series:Revista Brasileira de Economia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402018000400479&lng=en&tlng=en