Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216645 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 05-2020
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
Does inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) enhance municipal economic performance? This study employs marginal structural models to address selection into treatment and time-dependent confounding to estimate the effectiveness of IMC in the field of local business development. I use data on municipalities in four West-German states, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland Palatinate, and Bavaria during the years 2008-2015. I find that, over time, IMC has a positive effect on local economic performance and local business development resources are spent more productively in cooperating municipalities.
Subjects: 
Inter-municipal cooperation
economic development
marginal structural models
Germany
JEL: 
H77
O10
O22
D78
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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