Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple …-OECD countries. We show that most cities are highly fragmented: urban areas with more than 500,000 inhabitants are divided into74 … local jurisdictions on average. The vast majority of these cities are characterized by a central municipality that strongly …