The Effect of Inter-Municipal Cooperation on Local Business Development in German Municipalities

Does inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) enhance municipal economic performance? This study employs marginal structural models to address selection into treatment and time-dependent confounding to estimate the effectiveness of IMC in the field of local business development. I use data on municipalitie...

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Publié dans:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 05-2020)
Auteur principal: Wolfschütz, Eva
Format: Article
Langue:anglais
Publié: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2020
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Résumé:Does inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) enhance municipal economic performance? This study employs marginal structural models to address selection into treatment and time-dependent confounding to estimate the effectiveness of IMC in the field of local business development. I use data on municipalities in four West-German states, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland Palatinate, and Bavaria during the years 2008-2015. I find that, over time, IMC has a positive effect on local economic performance and local business development resources are spent more productively in cooperating municipalities.
Description matérielle:36 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0632