1. Local government cooperation at work: A control function approach
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Angela Parenti, Edoardo Di Porto, Sonia Paty, Zineb Abidi, Centre de recherche en économie et management (CREM), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, IMT Institute of Advanced Studies, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne (GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique (GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), DI PORTO, Edoardo, Parenti, Angela, Paty, Sonia, Abidi, Zineb, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)
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Local governments ,Economics and Econometrics ,Computer science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,cooperation ,Control function approach ,Control function ,Microeconomics ,panel data ,Politics ,Inter-municipal Cooperation ,Panel Data ,Control Function ,Inter-municipal cooperation ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,Economics ,Econometrics ,jel:C3 ,Cooperation ,Panel data ,Local governments, cooperation, control function approach, panel data ,050207 economics ,Planning and Development ,JEL: H - Public Economics/H.H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue ,Discrete choice ,050208 finance ,Public economics ,Geography ,05 social sciences ,JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models • Multiple Variables ,Public good ,[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance ,Location theory ,0506 political science ,control function ,control function,Inter-municipal cooperation,panel data ,jel:H2 ,Local government ,jel:H4 ,JEL: H - Public Economics/H.H7 - State and Local Government • Intergovernmental Relations ,jel:H7 ,Spatial econometrics ,JEL: H - Public Economics/H.H4 - Publicly Provided Goods - Abstract
International audience; We analyse voluntary coalition formation using a unique panel data for 1056 municipalities in the French region of Brittany between 1995 and 2002. We use a control function approach to develop a binary discrete choice model with spatial interactions. We find that a municipality’s decision to cooperate over the provision of local public goods depends on the decisions made by its neighbours. In particular, the probability of cooperating with neighbouring municipalities is higher if the latter already provide joint local public goods. This suggests that functional cooperation is likely to emerge due to a mimicking motivation and is poorly motivated by political alignment. The results are in line with the recent applied spatial economics literature but are derived for a discrete choice model setting.
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- 2014
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