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Title
Municipal Consolidation and Local Government Behavior: Evidence from Japanese Voting Data on Merger Referenda
Creator
Creator Name
Miyazaki, Takeshi Miyazaki, Takeshi
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Kyushu University
Editor
Contributor Name
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Key Word
Boundary reform
economics of scale
local referenda
median voter model
municipal consolidation
JEL
H11
H76
H77
Abstract
The empirical literature investigating the role of key features of local governments regarding decisions on consolidation tends to use a dummy that takes 1 if adjacent local governments decide to merge. Under the estimation method, it is difficult to identify which governments have no incentive to merge. The current study presents an empirical test of decision on consolidation using voting data from Japanese local referenda that distinctively identify the preferences of specific individual municipalities. I find evidence that municipalities that could enjoy large economies of scale from a merger prefer consolidation, and large and small municipalities are likely to merge.
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2013-05
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
Discussion paper series. A ; No. 588
Relation
Related Identifier
URI
  http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/
NCID
AA11476336
Number of Pages
32
Appears in Collections
Discussion paper series / Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/25675