Yvon Rocaboy

Main publications 

• “Rent seeking at the margin? Theory and evidence from UNESCO’s world heritage list”,  (with Martina Dattilo and Fabio Padovano),  Constitutional Political Economy, Forthcoming 2025,.

• "Soft-power and pro-European bias in the UNESCO World Heritage List? A test based on ICOMOS experts’ evaluations of colonial sites", (with Martina Dattilo and Fabio Padovano), Public Choice , 204, 425–456, 2025.

• "Inter-league competition and the optimal Broadcasting revenue-sharing rule", The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 23, 723-756, 2023. (available here)

• "More is worse : The evolution of quality of the UNESCO World Heritage List and its determininants", (with Martina Dattilo and Fabio Padovano), Journal of Cultural Economics, 47, 71-96, 2023. 

• "Performance expectations of professional sport teams and in-season head coach dismissals: Evidence from the English and French men's Football First Divisions”, (with Marek Pavlik), Economies, 8 (3), 2020. (available here)

• "Cheat or perish? A theory of scientific Customs",(with Sarah Necker and Benoît Le Maux), Research Policy, 48, 2019, 103792.

• "How defense shapes the institutional organization of states",(with Fabio Padovano), Public Choice, 175, 111-134, 2018. (available here)

• "Competition among national football leagues. Does it exist? Should we regulate?", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 64, 88-114, 2017. (available here)

• "Introduction to the special issue 64ème Congrès de l'AFSE", (with Katheline Schubert), Revue d'économie politique, 126, 619-620, 2016. 

• "Competition in Fragmentation among Political Coalitions: Theory and Evidence", (with Benoît Le Maux), Public Choice, 167, 67-94, 2016. (available here) 

• "SDI, NATO, and the Social Composition Function", (with Ghislain Dutheil de la Rochère and Jean-Michel Josselin), Defence and Peace Economics, 25, 85–95, 2014. (available here)

• “Wage dispersion and team performance: a theoretical model and evidence from baseball”, (with Robert Breunig, Bronwyn Garrett-Rumba and Mathieu Jardin), Applied Economics, 46, 271-281, 2014. (available here)

• “Grant legislation vs. political factors as determinants of soft budget spending behaviors. Comparison between Italian and French regions”, (with Jean-Michel Josselin and Fabio Padovano), European Journal of Comparative Economics, 10, 217-254, 2013. (available here)

• "Public finances of local government in Kenya", (with François Vaillancourt and Réjane Hugounenq), in B. Dafflon and T. Madiès (eds)  The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Implementation Model in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal, Africa Development Forum series, Washington, DC: World Bank.161-206, 2012.

• "A simple microfoundation for the utilization of fragmentation indexes to measure the performance of a team", (with Benoît Le Maux), Economics letters, 116, 491-493, 2012. (available here)

• "The role of aggregation technologies in the provision of supranational public goods: A reconsideration of NATO's strategies", (with Ghislain Dutheil de la Rochère and Jean-Michel Josselin), The Review of international organizations, 6, 85-103, 2011.   

• "Political fragmentation, Party ideology and Public expenditures", (with Benoît Le Maux and Timothy Goodspeed), Public Choice, 147, 43-67, 2011. (available here)   

• “The influence of population size on the relevance of demand or supply models for local public goods: Evidence from France ”, (with Jean-Michel Josselin and Christophe Tavéra), Papers in Regional Science, 88, 563-574, 2009. (available here)

• "Regional tax competition: Evidence from French regions", (with Emmanuelle Reulier), Regional Studies, 43, 915-922, 2009. (available here)

• "Per-capita public expenditures and population size: a non-parametric analysis using French data", (with Robert Breunig), Public Choice, 136, 429-445, 2008. (available here)

• "Structural Reform in France", (with Alain Guengant), in B. Dollery and L. Robotti (eds), The Theory and Practice of Local Government Reform, London : Edward Elgar, 133-147, 2008.

• "Finite-Lived politicians and Yardstick Competition", (with Emmanuelle Reulier), Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 24(1), 23-40, 2006. (available here) 

• " Qui paie la ville? Logique et efficacité du système de financement", Revue d'Economie Financière, 86, 99-110, 2006. 

• "Tax competition among municipalities in Finland", (with Aki Kangasharju, Antti Moisio, and Emmanuelle Reulier), Urban Public Economics Review, 5, 13-24, 2006. (available here)

• "Recent Contributions, from France to International Economics", (with Antoine Bouet, Olivier Hairault and Robert Owen), Guest co-editor’s Introduction of the special issue of Review of International Economics, 13 (3), 403-408, 2005.

• "Les stratégies fiscales des collectivités locales: de la théorie à la réalité", (avec Thierry Madiès et Sonia Paty), Revue de l’OFCE, 94, 123-315, 2005. (available here)

• "Externalités fiscales horizontales et verticales : Où en est la théorie du fédéralisme financier ?", (avec Thierry Madiès et Sonia Paty),  Bilan et Essai, Revue d'Economie Politique, 115 (1), 17-63, 2005. (available here)

• "Horizontal and vertical externalities: An overview of theoretical and empirical studies", (with Thierry Madiès and Sonia Paty), Urban Public Economics Review, 2, 63-93, 2004. (available here)

• "The Central Government grant allocation problem in the presence of misrepresentation and cheating" (with Guy Gilbert), Economics of Governance, 5, 137-147, 2004. (available here)

• "Tax mimicking among regional jurisdictions" (with Lars P. Feld and Jean-Michel Josselin), in A.  Marciano and J.M. Josselin (eds), From economic to legal competition. New perspectives on law and institutions in Europe, London : Edward Elgar , 105-119, 2003. (available here)

• "Le mimétisme fiscal : une application aux régions françaises", Economie et Prévision (avec Lars P. Feld et Jean-Michel Josselin), n°156, 43-49, 2002. (available here)

• "Effects of Club Size in the provision of Local Public Goods : Network and Congestion Effects in the case of the French Municipalities" (with Alain Guengant and Jean-Michel Josselin), Papers in Regional Science, 81 (4), 443-460, 2002. (available here)

• "Politiques de redistribution décentralisées et concurrence sociale", Economie et Prévision, n°128, 1997-2, Erratum : n°129, 1997-3, p. 276. (available here)

• "L'influence des subventions sur la dépense publique locale, Revue d'Economie Politique, vol 104(4), 1994, 589-603. (available here)

Coauthors

• Robert Breunig, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

• Ghislain Dutheil de la Rochère, Ecoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, Guer, France

• Lars Feld, Walter Eucken Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany

• Timothy J. Goodspeed, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA

• Jean-Michel Josselin, University of Rennes 1, France 

• Benoît Le Maux, University of Rennes 1, France

• Thierry Madiès, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

• Antti Moisio, OCDE

• Fabio Padovano, University of Rennes 1 and University of Roma 3

• Sonia Paty, University of Lyon 2, France

• Christophe Tavéra, University of Rennes 1, France