Does inter-municipal cooperation help improve local economic performance? – Evidence from Poland

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This paper aims at testing whether inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in policies to promote local business development has a positive impact on local economic performance. We apply two-way fixed effects as well as marginal structural models to a panel data set covering 1,849 Polish municipalities between 2007 and 2014. We use the unemployment rate and the rate of population growth as a proxy for local economic performance. Our results show a systematic effect of IMC on local economic performance. However, the results are contradictory. While IMC causes higher rates of population growth, they also cause higher rates of unemployment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 06-2020

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession ; Public Economics: Miscellaneous Issues: General ; Economic Development: General
• Subject: Inter-municipal cooperation ; local business development ; population decline ; marginal structural models ; Poland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Banaszewska, Monika ; Bischoff, Ivo ; Kaczynska, Aneta ; Wolfschütz, Eva
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics
• (where): Marburg
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/216646
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