Merged municipalities, higher debt: on free-riding and the common pool problem in politics

By Henrik Jordahl, Che-Yuan Liang. 2010

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Municipal amalgamations and their effects: a literature review (2018, unknown): “Kelleher and Lowery (2004) argue that the absence of conflict is not necessarily an indicator of healthy governance.”
The effects of local government amalgamation on public spending, taxation, and service levels : Evidence from 15 years of municipal consolidation (2016, unknown): “Difference-in-difference estimation has been applied in this field by Lüchinger and Stutzer (2002), Tyrefors Hinnerich (2009), Jordahl and Liang (2010), Reingewertz (2012), and Blesse and Baskaran (2013).”
Factors explaining inter-municipal cooperation in service delivery: a meta-regression analysis (2016, background): “…(2012) finds reduced expenditures resulted from amalgamation in Israel, most empirical papers on the topic find no evidence of positive impacts from consolidation either on costs/debt or on scale economies (i.e. Tyrefors Hinnerich 2009; Jordahl and Liang 2010; Allers and Geertsema 2014).”
Jurisdiction Size and Local Government Policy Expenditure: Assessing the Effect of Municipal Amalgamation (2016, background): “…evidence suggests these can be large, not just because of the transition costs, but also—and probably more importantly— because municipalities about to merge often indulge in a last-minute flurry of spending (Blom-Hansen 2010; Hansen 2014; Hinnerich 2009; Jonsson 1983; Jordahl and Liang 2010).”