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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 …

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Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? : evidence from Japan

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Do mergers of large local governments reduce expenditures? : evidence from Germany using the synthetic control method

Rösel, Felix - 2016

States merge small and medium sized municipalities to achieve economies of scale. Little is known to which extent mergers of large local governments reduce expenditures. I use the synthetic control method to identify the effect of mergers of county-sized administrations in Germany (districts) on...

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