What drives small municipalities to cooperate? Evidence from Hessian municipalities
What drives small municipalities to cooperate? Evidence from Hessian municipalities
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是什么促使小城市进行合作？
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2014
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Frédéric Blaeschke
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作者：
Frédéric Blaeschke
这份报告研究了黑森州小城市的市政间合作的决定因素。现有的资料突出了合作需求因素的作用，例如规模压力或人口因素，以及交易成本问题。本研究探讨空间邻域如何在考虑邻近城市特性的情况下影响合作决策(合作供给)。这项研究侧重于在劳动密集型公共行政服务领域的市政间合作，例如管理和会计任务、人事管理或民事登记OCES。我们发现，规模压力、种群增长和大小异质性是主要驱动力。与邻里关系相关的供给因素只有微弱的意义。合作的可能性更大的是属于一组毗邻城市的一部分，这些城市在规模上是不同的。
This contribution studies the determinants of intermunicipal cooperation for small Hessian municipalities. Existing contributions have highlighted the role of cooperation demand factors, for example scal stress or demographic factors, on the one hand, and transaction cost issues on the other. This study asks how the spatial neighbourhood a ects cooperation decision making taking characteristics of neighbouring municipalities into account (cooperation supply). The study focuses on intermunicipal cooperations in the eld of labor intensive public administration services, for example, management and accounting tasks, personnel administration or civil registry oces. We nd that the main driving forces are scal stress, population growth and size heterogeneity. Neighbourhood-related supply factors areonly weakly signi cant. Cooperation is more likely for municipalities that are part of a set of neighbouring municipalities which are heterogeneous with respect to size.