Intermunicipal cooperation is a common way to provide local public services, exploit
economies of scale, and internalize externalities. However, little is known about possible …

We investigate how intergovernmental ties at subnational levels between home and host
countries influence the intensity and location of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. We …

This paper provides new evidence on why municipalities are often reluctant to integrate.
Exploiting a French reform that made inter-municipal cooperation mandatory, I find that …

When local governments are small and fragmented, promoting inter‐municipal cooperation
(IMC) among them is seen as a tool to improve the management of public services by …

This paper studies how inter-municipal cooperation, through the creation of a new
jurisdictional tier with transferred competencies and tax powers, affects the four main direct …

Inter‐municipal cooperation (IMC) is increasingly becoming a tool municipalities use to
achieve development goals and increase public service quality. However, in Central and …

We use a hazard model to identify the factors that drive the emergence of inter-municipal
cooperation (IMC) in tasks of internal administration in West-Germany between 2003 and …

Zusammenfassung Seit Jahrzehnten werden kommunale Gebietskörperschaften fusioniert,
in der Hoffnung auf Kosteneinsparungen und eine höhere Leistungsfähigkeit der …

This paper proposes a theoretical model of voluntary intermunicipal cooperation and
empirically tests its assertions through the French municipalities' choices of transferring their …

This paper examines the question: Does the existence of regional spillovers have an impact
on the emergence of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in tourism marketing? We use data …