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 …

Cooperation among local governments has been encouraged to enable the aggregation of resources and improved public … sector efficiency. However, if cooperation through the joint delivery of local public services is likely to be welfare … between cooperation decision and the fiscal revenues raised to provide local public goods. We employ a new econometric …

We consider agents playing a linear network game with strategic complementarities. We analyse the problem of a policy … maker who can change the structure of the network in order to increase the aggregate efforts of the individuals and/or the … sum of their utilities, given that the number of links of the network has to remain fixed. We identify some link …

' internationalization are proposed in the literature: the stage approach, the network approach and the international entrepreneurship …

industrial actors take into account the question of the local-global articulation for the strategic building of their own ego-network …

We model agents in a network game of strategic complements and negative externalities. Sufficient conditions for the … players with more vulnerable locations in the network exert more effort at equilibrium, and that the most influential players …

see how different dedicated network configurations affect firm performance, taking into account both the performance …