Does the flypaper model stick? A test of the relative performance of the flypaper and conventional models of local government budgetary behaviour

✍ Scribed by Richard R. Barnett; Rosella Levaggi; Peter Smith

• Book ID: 104631014
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 916 KB
• Volume: 69
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0048-5829
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00123851

✦ Synopsis

Two of the most widely referred to models of local (or state) budgetary behaviour are developed and tested. The models considered are a variant of the flypaper model (see, for example, Courant et al., 1979 andOates, 1979) and a conventional model which builds on the seminal work of Wilde (1969Wilde ( , 1971)). The models are developed in a manner which allows them to be tested empirically using data for English local governments. Two types of test are employed: the ability of the two models to explain the variations in expenditure levels across local governments within any given fiscal year; the ability of the models to predict future levels of expenditure given changes to local government budget constraints (as brought about, for example, by changs in grants-in-aid from central government).