Vertically Summing Public Good Demand Curves: An Empirical Comparison of Economic versus Political Jurisdictions
基于六项自然资源公共物品的调查估值研究，测量了居民位置与公共物品收益的关系，发现州政治辖区平均仅反映经济辖区总收益的13%。
Fiscal equivalence for efficient provision of a public good requires perfect correspondence between political and economic jurisdictions. However, the spatial extent of the economic jurisdiction is an empirical question. Drawing on four survey-based valuation studies, we measure the "relative public good benefit gradient" as a function of residential location from six natural resource public goods. The results indicate commonly used state political jurisdictions reflect an average of 13% of total benefits in the economic jurisdiction, although with a logarithmic form for distance the upper confidence interval of state benefits can include 100% for some species.