Bruns, Benjamin; Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Abel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
We study political determinants of municipality amalgamations during a boundary reform in the German state of Brandenburg, which reduced the number of municipalities from 1,489 to 421. The analysis is conducted using data on the political decision makers as well as fiscal and socio-economic...