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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail (Working Paper) Année : 2021

Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation

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This paper provides new evidence on why municipalities are often reluctant to integrate. Exploiting a French reform that made intermunicipal cooperation mandatory, I find that urban municipalities forced to integrate experienced a large increase in construction, consistent with NIMBYism explaining their resistance, while rural municipalities ended up with fewer local public services. I do not find the same effects for municipalities that had voluntarily integrated prior to the law, while both types of municipality enjoyed similar benefits in terms of public transport and fiscal revenues. These findings support the fact that municipalities resisted to avoid the local costs of integration.
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hal-03380333 , version 1 (15-10-2021)

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Clémence Tricaud. Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation. 2021. ⟨hal-03380333⟩
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