This article investigates the effect of the intensity of political competition on the tax choices by local governments. More precisely, we study whether local governments determine their tax rates more in a Leviathan way, exploiting a low political competition to vote high tax rates, or in a...

La création en février 2005 d'une commission d'enquête de l'Assemblée Nationale sur " L'évolution de la fiscalité locale, de ses conséquences sur le pouvoir d'achat des ménages et sur la vie des entreprises, ainsi que sur les conditions d'une responsabilité mieux assumée des décideurs...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of inter-municipal fiscal cooperation on municipal public spending, based on the French experience. We estimate a model of municipal spending choice using panel data and spatial econometrics for municipalities over the period 1994-2003. We...

This article investigates the effect of the intensity of political competition on the tax choices by local governments. More precisely, we study whether local governments determine their tax rates more in a Leviathan way, exploiting a low political competition to vote high tax rates, or in a...

La création en février 2005 d'une commission d'enquête de l'Assemblée Nationale sur " L'évolution de la fiscalité locale, de ses conséquences sur le pouvoir d'achat des ménages et sur la vie des entreprises, ainsi que sur les conditions d'une responsabilité mieux assumée des décideurs...

Using data from a household survey carried out in the French overseas territory of Réunion, we investigate the price of drinking-water perceived by households faced with an increasing, multi-step pricing scheme. To this purpose we use an improved version of the method introduced by Shin (1985)...

This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun's coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period 1990-2008,...

This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun's coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period 1990-2008,...

Cet article cherche à évaluer les déterminants de la dynamique entrepreneuriale dans les régions françaises pour la période 1993-2004. On estime dans ce but un modèle dynamique de panel par la méthode de Blundell et Bond (1998) pour expliquer le taux de création d'entreprise (rapporté...

This research aims at appraising the determinants of entrepreneurship dynamism in the French administrative regions over the period 1993-2004. First, we highlight how the regional territory may be considered under a double dimension in order to explain the differentials between the regional...