In this article, we quantitatively analyze changes in the size distribution of municipal jurisdictions in Japan by … using their rank-size distribution to capture the change. In Japan, the central government sometimes enacts large …-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of a certain size. Japan fs local governance policy allocates tax …

We analyse free-riding behaviour of Finnish municipalities prior to voluntary municipal mergers. The merger process … creates a temporary common pool problem, because of a delay from the initial decision to the actual merger during which … two policy implications. First, during a merger process, some financial constraints on the local level may be a good idea …

operator in France and the merger between the third and the fourth mobile operators in Austria. Using a hedonic price model and … price of mobile data services by 4 dollars per Gigabyte; contrary to the merger in the Austrian market which lowers the unit … the static ones in the mobile telecommunications industry. Therefore, a merger from four to three mobile operators may be …