In two seminal papers in the early 1970s, Borcherding and Deacon (1972) and Bergstrom and Goodman (1973) (hereafter referred to as BDBG) attempted for the first time to estimate the exhaustibility (or rivalness) characteristics of local public goods. Their method was based upon the examination of th
Local public goods and average cost pricing
β Scribed by Rajiv Vohra
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 994 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0304-4068
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