This paper reviews different ways in which the formal governance of metropolitan areas may
be restructured, such as through two-tier structures, voluntary cooperation, special districts …

In the 1990s, there was a growing process of administrative decentralization that culminated
in the creation of 1,016 new municipalities in Brazil. The aim of this paper is to verify the …

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 …

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 …

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

Cooperation among local governments has been encouraged to enable the aggregation of
resources and improved public sector efficiency. The objective of this article is to contribute …

We study local tax competition when municipalities can voluntarily cooperate. We compare
the intensity of interjurisdictional policy interdependence between competing municipalities …

This paper aims at testing whether inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in policies to promote
local business development has a positive impact on local economic performance. We …

Intermunicipal cooperation (IMC) in regions of social–economic and cultural heterogeneity
may facilitate economies of scale and improve competitiveness and service delivery, but the …

During the 1960s and 1970s, the German state governments reduced the number of
municipalities. Many independent municipalities in the outskirts of cities became districts of …