Does Inter-Municipal Cooperation Help Improve Local Economic Performance? - Evidence from Poland
This paper aims at testing whether inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in policies to promote local business development has a positive impact on local economic performance. We apply two-way fixed effects as well as marginal structural models to a panel data set covering 1,849 Polish municipalities be...
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Published in: | MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 06-2020) |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2020
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Summary: | This paper aims at testing whether inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in policies to promote local business development has a positive impact on local economic performance. We apply two-way fixed effects as well as marginal structural models to a panel data set covering 1,849 Polish municipalities between 2007 and 2014. We use the unemployment rate and the rate of population growth as a proxy for local economic performance. Our results show a systematic effect of IMC on local economic performance. However, the results are contradictory. While IMC causes higher rates of population growth, they also cause higher rates of unemployment. |
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Physical Description: | 50 Pages |
ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
DOI: | 10.17192/es2024.0633 |