Economics of federalism

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Introduction / Bruce H. Kobayashi and Larry E. Ribstein -- A pure theory of local expenditures / Charles M. Tiebout -- Exit rights under federalism / Richard A. Epstein -- Federalism: problems of scale / Gordon Tullock -- The origin and purposes of federalism ; The maintenance of federalism: the administrative theory / William H. Riker -- Regulation and the American common market / Edmund W. Kitch -- Federal deference to local regulators and the economic theory of regulation: toward a public-choice explanation of federalism / Jonathan R. Macey -- Micro estimates of public spending demand functions and tests of the Tiebout and median-voter hypotheses / Edward M. Gramlich and Daniel L. Rubinfeld -- Assessing the importance of Tiebout sorting: local heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990 / Paul W. Rhode and Koleman S. Strumpf -- Does federalism matter? Political choice in a federal republic / Susan Rose-Ackerman -- The implications of competition among jurisdictions: does Tiebout need politics? / Dennis Epple and Alan Zelentiz -- A retrospective overview ; The organization of governmental systems / Albert Breton -- The economic role of political institutions: market-preserving federalism and economic development / Barry R. Weingast -- Rethinking federalism / Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld -- Designing tax policy in federalist economies: an overview / Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld -- Open economy, federalism, and taxing authority / Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan -- Reviving Leviathan: fiscal federalism and the growth of government / Jonathan Rodden -- Tiebout? or not Tiebout? The market metaphor and America's devolution debate / John Donahue -- Mobility and Redistribution -- Dennis Epple and Thomas Romer -- v. 2. Interstate exploitation and judicial intervention / Saul Levmore -- An economic analysis of Uniform State laws / Larry E. Ribstein and Bruce H. Kobayashi -- Choice of law and the federal system / William F. Baxter-- From politics to efficiency in choice of law / Erin O'Hara and Larry E. Ribstein -- Law as a product: some pieces of the incorporation puzzle / Roberta Romano -- Federalism and the corporation: the desirable limits on state competition in corporate law / Lucian Ayre Bebchuk -- Antitrust and the economics of federalism / Frank H. Easterbrook -- Federalism and environmental regulation: a public choice analysis / Richard L. Revesz -- An economic and political look at federalism in taxation / Daniel Shaviro -- Assistance to the poor in a federal system / Charles C. Brown and Wallace E. Oates -- The market for criminal justice: federalism, crime control, and jurisdictional competition / Doron Teichman.