Arbeitspapier
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state
We study the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers by making use of a largescale merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg. In addition to being the first evaluation of an East-German merger reform, this study contributes to the literature by exploring the fiscal consequences of both compulsory and (semi-) voluntary municipal mergers within the same institutional setting. Using a difference-in-difference design with municipality-level panel data over 1998-2005, we find substantial and immediate reductions in total, administrative, and current expenditures after compulsory mergers. Voluntary mergers, on the other hand, have smaller and less robust effects.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: cege Discussion Papers ; No. 176 [rev.]
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
State and Local Budget and Expenditures
Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession
Public Facility Location Analysis; Public Investment and Capital Stock
- Thema
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municipal mergers
economies of scale
voluntary and compulsory mergers
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Blesse, Sebastian
Baskaran, Thushyanthan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)
- (wo)
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Göttingen
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Blesse, Sebastian
- Baskaran, Thushyanthan
- University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)
Entstanden
- 2014
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