Municipality amalgamation and free-ride behavior: Eligibility assessments for long-term care insurance in Japan

Amalgamation offers municipalities an incentive to free ride when they can subrogate the load to a new municipality after amalgamation. Previous literature has clarified opportunistic behavior in local public bond issues. However, if the municipality does not have a leeway in policy decision m aking...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 40-2013)
المؤلف الرئيسي: Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2013
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الملخص:Amalgamation offers municipalities an incentive to free ride when they can subrogate the load to a new municipality after amalgamation. Previous literature has clarified opportunistic behavior in local public bond issues. However, if the municipality does not have a leeway in policy decision m aking, it cannot adopt free ride behavior. Although the Japanese long term care insurance system has been so designed that the municipality does not have discretion in its working, doubts have been raised on this score. This study empirically considers thi s issue by examining municipality behavior before amalgamation. Difference in difference regression confirms a free ride effect in the eligibility assessments for long term care by the Japanese municipality . These results mean that the Japanese long term c are insurance system is not managed in accordance with the institutional design.
تدمد:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0202