Interlocal service collaboration network and fiscal outcomes: Empirical evidence from Nebraska counties

Tingli Qu

Public Budgeting & Finance, 2025, vol. 45, issue 2, 84-107

Abstract: U.S. local governments frequently collaborate through interlocal agreements to coordinate resources in confronting challenges that transcend jurisdictional boundaries. This research leverages unique data on cooperating entities in interlocal agreements among Nebraska counties from 2012 to 2017 to explore how collaborative network structures predict government‐wide budgetary indicators. By documenting stylized facts of these agreements and using a two‐way fixed effects estimator, the findings reveal that network centrality and clustering coefficient are associated with lower per capita revenues and expenditures, but higher property taxes and tax rates.

Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12380

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:pbudge:v:45:y:2025:i:2:p:84-107

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=0275-1100

Access Statistics for this article

Public Budgeting & Finance is currently edited by Philip Joyce and William Simonsen

More articles in Public Budgeting & Finance from Wiley Blackwell
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().