The effects of local government amalgamation on public spending, taxation, and service levels : Evidence from 15 years of municipal consolidation

By Maarten A. Allers. 2016

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/425a691d393ec2457194ffb903b04171dfdb5357

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• Do mergers of large local governments reduce expenditures? - Evidence from Germany using the synthetic control method (2017, unknown): “Moisio and Uusitalo (2013) and Allers and Geertsema (2016) do not find any significant effect of municipal reforms on public expenditures in Finland and in the Netherlands. Blesse and Baskaran (2016) do neither find effects of voluntary nor of compulsory mergers on overall, administrative and person”