Local government cooperation at work: a control function approach
Sonia Paty
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Zineb Abidi
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Résumé
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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Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
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Local government cooperation at work: a control function approach
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Résumé |
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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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Auteur(s) |
Edoardo Di Porto
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, Angela Parenti
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, Sonia Paty
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, Zineb Abidi
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University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II
( 544964 )
- Via Cintia Monte S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy
- Italie
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IMT Institute of Advanced Studies
( 409538 )
- Piazza S. Ponziano, 6 - 55100 Lucca
- Italie
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GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne -
Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne
( 102550 )
- 93, chemin des Mouilles 69130 Écully
6, rue Basse des Rives 42023 Saint-Étienne cedex 02
- France
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CREM -
Centre de recherche en économie et management
( 894 )
- 7 place Hoche, BP 86514
35065 RENNES CEDEX
- France
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2017
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Date de publication électronique |
2016-02
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Volume |
17
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Numéro |
2
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Page/Identifiant |
pp. 435-463
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Local governments, panel data, control function, cooperation
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DOI | 10.1093/jeg/lbw008 |
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