This paper critically surveys the growing literature on the policy choices of local
governments. First, we identify various reasons for local government policy interactions …

Spatial documentation is exponentially increasing given the availability of Big Data in the
Internet of Things, enabled by device miniaturization and data storage capacity. Bayesian …

Cooperation among local governments has been encouraged to enable the aggregation of
resources and improved public sector efficiency. The objective of this article is to contribute …

We introduce a spatial autoregressive hurdle model for nonnegative origin–destination flows
y N, i j. The model incorporates a hurdle formulation to elucidate the different data …

In the past two decades, public economists have increasingly employed spatial
econometrics techniques to investigate the phenomenon of horizontal and vertical …

This paper explores the effects of a federal law that obligates previously unregulated
municipalities in Germany to set a minimum tax rate on firms' taxable profits. In particular, we …

This article contributes to the ongoing debate on local tax policy-making, in particular
regarding yardstick competition in the area-based property taxation system. Based on data …

We study local tax competition when municipalities can voluntarily cooperate. We compare
the intensity of interjurisdictional policy interdependence between competing municipalities …

De jure fiscal rules have known a rapidly increasing popularity worldwide. This paper aims
at analysing their spatial diffusion in 108 countries over the period 2001–2015 using a …

Cooperation among local governments has been encouraged to enable the aggregation of
resources and improved public sector efficiency. However, if cooperation through the joint …