Local Public Finance and Economic Geography

Abstract

The special issue of Annales d'Economie et Statistique presented here comes out of an international conference which was held in Marseilles (GREQAM) in June 1994 in connection with a programme of Commissariat General au Plan and with the support of ADRES. Sixty scholars, specialists in economic geography and local public finance, have participated to the conference which was part of the programme of Commissariat General au Plan on Issues and mechanisms in decentralized public action. The objective was to discuss recent work in economics related to the geography of trade and power.