Regionalization and Consolidation of Municipal Taxes and Services

Hall, Joshua C.; Matti, Josh; Yang, Zhou

doi:10.52324/001c.8001

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“…A compromise is then to match these optimal areas of intervention with the specific territories, a compromise that leads to favouring large scale development and centralization when economies of scale and spillover effects are significant. * Conversely, small scale development and decentralization occur when agents' preferences are heterogeneous and congestion effects are significant (Hall et al, 2018).…”

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Evolving the Common Agricultural Policy for Tomorrow's Challenges

Détang-Dessendre¹,

Guyomard²

2022

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Measures that are more specific complete the picture targeting specific support for certain products, production methods, or specific local conditions. Among others, some target Organic Farming (OF), young farmers, or specific investments. Other measures provide aid to farmers in less-favoured areas or aid to compensate for the additional costs of adopting more environmentally friendly practices. • The CAP and the economyThe 1992 reform of the CAP was initially a response to an external constraint to allow the successful conclusion of the multilateral agricultural negotiations of the 1994 Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, also known as GATT, and the compatibility of the future CAP with this agreement . The path taken at that time (that is, the decoupling of the agricultural income support policy) is the same that is followed today, even though the global context has changed markedly, with the rise of new agricultural export (Argentina, Brazil) and import (China) players; the failure of the multilateral negotiations of the Doha Round at the World Trade Organization (WTO); 4 the multiplication of bilateral trade agreements; and more recently, the unilateral setting of customs duties by certain countries in a climate of (at least latent) trade warfare. For completeness, it should also be noted that the European agricultural sector is facing new and significant economic challenges that it is struggling to meet: first, fluctuations in agricultural prices and incomes in an EU that is less protected by customs duties today than it was previously (even if these remain significant for several products and non-tariff protection still exists); and second, difficulties in creating value in the context of a saturated domestic food market and in distributing the value created in a balanced way between the different actors of the production, processing, and distribution chains.The economic aspects of the CAP and European agriculture are the subject of the first part of this book. Following a brief history of the CAP from its origins to the present day in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 deals with the question of the dependence of farm incomes on CAP support, and Chapter 3 examines agricultural employment dynamics. Chapter 4 covers trade aspects and the competitiveness of European agriculture on the international scene. Chapter 5 examines the distribution of value, and Chapter 6 discusses the crisis and risk management instruments.

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Evolving the Common Agricultural Policy for Tomorrow's Challenges

Détang-Dessendre¹,

Guyomard²

2022

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“…In many contexts globally, local governments co-exist in an ecology of competing and cooperating service-delivery organizations (Blackmond Larnell 2018;Hall, Matti, and Zhou 2018). Concerning questions of efficiency, growth and citizen responsiveness, U.S. local government research has devoted considerable attention to this landscape and demarcates the impacts of fragmentation between horizontal and vertical dimensions (Hendrick and Shi 2014).…”

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Beyond Borders: Governmental Fragmentation and the Political Market for Growth in American Cities

Stokan

Deslatte

2019

State and Local Government Review

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Political fragmentation has been conceptualized as a phenomenon which increases competition for mobile citizens and jobs between local governments within the same region. However, the empirical basis for this nexus between governmental fragmentation and increased competition for development is surprisingly lacking. Utilizing a newly constructed database that matches political fragmentation indices (horizontal, vertical, and bordered) to a nationwide survey of economic development officials in 2014, we begin to fill this gap by analyzing the influence fragmentation has on the use of tax incentives, regulatory flexibility, and community development tools in U.S. cities. Applying the political market framework and a Bayesian inferential approach, we find that the proliferation of local governments increases incentive use. However, more specialized governance increases the probability of using community development activities.

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The economic impact of city–county consolidations: a synthetic control approach

2019

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Although more rapid development is a primary motivation behind city-county consolidations, relatively few empirical papers explore the actual impact of consolidation on development. This study uses the synthetic control method (SCM) to examine the long-term impact of city-county consolidations on per capita income, population, and employment. The results from the three cases explored indicate that consolidation does not guarantee development and can actually have negative effects. Additionally, the effects vary based upon the county, time horizon, and development measure.JEL Codes: H11, H70, R11, R58

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Regionalization and Consolidation of Municipal Taxes and Services

Cited by 7 publications

References 52 publications

Evolving the Common Agricultural Policy for Tomorrow's Challenges

Evolving the Common Agricultural Policy for Tomorrow's Challenges

Beyond Borders: Governmental Fragmentation and the Political Market for Growth in American Cities

The economic impact of city–county consolidations: a synthetic control approach

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