question by making use of a merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg in 2003. In addition to identifying the …

We study the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers by making use of a largescale merger reform in the German federal … panel data from 1995-2010 at the level of post-merger municipalities. We find significant reductions in (administrative … effects of voluntary and compulsory mergers vary according to further (secondary) characteristics of a merger. …

We study the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers by making use of a largescale merger reform in the German federal … state of Brandenburg. In addition to being the first evaluation of an East-German merger reform, this study contributes to …

question by making use of a merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg in 2003. In addition to identifying the …

Germany and Austria. Chapter 2 investigates how far-right populist mayors influence local political culture and economic …

of county-sized administrations in Germany (districts) on public expenditures. In 2008, the German state of Saxony …

Voters dealing with jurisdictional merger decisions face a trade-off between economies of scale and preference costs … treatments on merger support are lower for respondents from states that are actually discussed as merger candidates. Effects are …

between states. Trade barriers reduced the benefits of a common market and undermined market-preserving federalism (Weingast …

This Article exposes a misapplication of federalism as the driving force behind the Supreme Court's extreme narrowing … framed in terms of notice, its origin, as well as the Court's rationale surrounding it, reveal that it is a federalism policy … beneficiaries - often the neediest -without a remedy and state noncompliance unaddressed. Federalism requires balancing federal …

American “we-do-federalism-right” triumphalism. In the United States, as in Europe, subordinate governments are beset by … governments. That commitment was once the glory of American federalism. Over the past decade, however, the no-bailout commitment … has effectively collapsed. Its demise entails fundamental changes in American federalism, none of them encouraging. After …