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An Inquiry into the Efficiency of Water Projects Under WRDA'86

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Anna Rubinchik-Pessach ()

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The aim of this paper is to check whether intergovernmental transfers for water projects accepted in 1986 in the U.S. can be rationalized by a simple efficiency criterion. The empirical findings support this conjecture only partially. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

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Article provided by Springer in its journal International Tax and Public Finance.

Volume (Year): 11 (2004)
Issue (Month): 6 (November)
Pages: 741-762
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Keywords: evaluation of public projects; spillovers; intergovernmental transfers; capitalization;

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