What drives small municipalities to cooperate? Evidence from Hessian municipalities

Frederic Blaeschke ()
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Frederic Blaeschke: University of Kassel

MAGKS Papers on Economics from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung)

Abstract: This contribution studies the determinants of intermunicipal cooperation for small Hessian municipalities. Existing contributions have highlighted the role of cooperation demand factors, for example scal stress or demographic factors, on the one hand, and transaction cost issues on the other. This study asks how the spatial neighbourhood a ects cooperation decision making taking characteristics of neighbouring municipalities into account (cooperation supply). The study focuses on intermunicipal cooperations in the eld of labor intensive public administration services, for example, management and accounting tasks, personnel administration or civil registry oces. We nd that the main driving forces are scal stress, population growth and size heterogeneity. Neighbourhood-related supply factors areonly weakly signi cant. Cooperation is more likely for municipalities that are part of a set of neighbouring municipalities which are heterogeneous with respect to size.

Keywords: Intermunicipal cooperation; neighbourhood structures; cooperation demand; cooperation supply; heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H11 H77 H83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2014
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