While many central governments amalgamate municipalities, mergers of larger county administrations are rare and hardly explored. In this paper, we assess both fiscal and political effects of county mergers in two different institutional settings: counties act autonomously as upperlevel local...

Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...

Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, we study the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities characterised by different types of informal and formal institutions. Our results provide new evidence that fiscal decentralisation led to a...

This paper attempts to achieve three targets: First, to prove that Tiebout's local expenditure theory is wasteful; Second, to show how private firms can efficiently supply public goods; Third, to work out the optimal pricing policy for using public goods. In addition, this paper rejects setting...

Die Dissertation stellt die bundesdeutsche Sportförderpraxis in quantitativer wie qualitativer Hinsicht über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren dar, wobei - im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Veröffentlichungen - die kommunale Sportförderung im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung steht. Einen zweiten Schwerpunkt...