“…Therefore, the question whether the new facilities should be financed by the government or by private investors soon emerged and has been widely discussed in literature (see for the U.S. e.g. Baade, 2003;Coates & Humphreys 1999Noll & Zimbalist, 1997;Siegfried & Zimbalist, 2000, 2002Long, 2005; for Germany see Dietl & Pauli, 2002a, 2002bNapp & Vornholz, 2002, among others).…”