This paper provides evidence of the role of spillovers in the efficiency of French municipalities. These spillovers are apprehended through four levels of municipal equipment and we investigate municipal efficiency changes both for cities including a certain amount of equipment and for cities...

We study local tax competition when municipalities can voluntarily cooperate. We compare the intensity of interjurisdictional policy interdependence between competing municipalities within the same “establishment for inter-municipal cooperation” (EIMC) and competing municipalities outside of...

This paper analyses the impact of funding source of the bailout on the softness of the regional budget constraint. We show that the funding source of the bailout has a considerable impact both on the credibility of the federal government's commitment and on the regional opportunistic behaviour....