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Local governments Intermunicipal cooperation Difference-in-differences Housing regulations Local public services H - Public Economics/H.H7 - State and Local Government • Intergovernmental Relations/H.H7.H70 - General R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics/R.R5 - Regional Government Analysis/R.R5.R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics/R.R5 - Regional Government Analysis/R.R5.R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis • Public Investment and Capital StockSujets proches
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Clémence Tricaud, « Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation », Archive ouverte de Sciences Po (SPIRE), ID : 10670/1.t3digq
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This paper provides new evidence on why municipalities are often reluctant to integrate. Exploiting a French reform that made intermunicipal cooperation mandatory, I find that urban municipalities forced to integrate experienced a large increase in construction, consistent with NIMBYism explaining their resistance, while rural municipalities ended up with fewer local public services. I do not find the same effects for municipalities that had voluntarily integrated prior to the law, while both types of municipality enjoyed similar benefits in terms of public transport and fiscal revenues. These findings support the fact that municipalities resisted to avoid the local costs of integration.