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Migration-Proof Tiebout Equilibrium: Existence and Asymptotic Efficiency

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John P. Conley (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Hideo Konishi () (Boston College)

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Tiebout's basic claim was that when public goods are local there is an equilibrium and every equilibrium is efficient. The literature seems fall short of verifying this conjecture: If the notion of equilibrium is too weak then equilibrium is nonempty yet some equilibria could be inefficient. On the other hand, if the notion of equilibrium is too strong, then every equilibrium is efficient yet equilibrium may be empty. This paper introduces a new equilibrium notion, a \textit{migration-proof Tiebout equilibrium}, which is a jurisdiction structure such that (i) no consumer wants to migrate unilaterally across jurisdictions (free mobility of consumers), and (ii) no subgroup of consumers want to form a new jurisdiction that would not create instability in population distribution (free entry of migration-proof jurisdictions). We show that there is always a unique migration-proof equilibrium and is asymptotically efficient when consumers are homogeneous.

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Paper provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Boston College Working Papers in Economics with number 452.

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Date of creation: 01 Jan 2000
Date of revision: 01 Dec 2000
Publication status: published, Journal of Public Economics, 86, 241-260
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