Frère, Quentin; Leprince, Matthieu; Paty, Sonia - HAL - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of inter-municipal fiscal cooperation on municipal public spending … for municipalities over the period 1994-2003. We provide two main results. First, inter-municipal cooperation has no … significant impact on the level of municipal public spending, which suggests that cooperation does not achieve its goal of …