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If You Build It, Will They Come?: Fiscal Federalism, Local Provision of Public Tourist Amenities, and the Vision Iowa Fund

The Review of Regional Studies

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Title If You Build It, Will They Come?: Fiscal Federalism, Local Provision of Public Tourist Amenities, and the Vision Iowa Fund
 
Creator Premkumar, Deepak
Quackenbush, Austin
Artz, Georgeanne
Orazem, Peter
 
Subject amenities, fiscal federalism, sales tax public goods, local government, spillovers
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Description Iowa provided partial state funding to communities to build tourist attractions, a potential solution to local under-provision of public goods. A 10 percent increase in state funds increased county taxable retail sales by 0.1 percent. The State’s return from resulting sales tax revenue averaged 11.8 percent. Local communities paid more and received less tax, and so their return was much smaller at 1.2 percent. Neighboring community sales also increased. The positive spillovers to neighbors and the state suggest that local communities will undersupply public amenities without state subsidies.
 
Publisher Southern Regional Science Association
 
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Date 2014-03-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/43.23.4
 
Source The Review of Regional Studies; Vol 43, No 2,3 (2013); 155-173
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1553-0892
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/43.23.4/pdf