In many countries, studies give evidence of a complementary relationship between local spending at different levels. Allowing spatial heterogeneity in the demand behaviour, we show that the usual result of a systematic complementarity between the Municipal and the County spending decisions is...

In this paper, we estimate a residential water demand function for the Reunion island, a French overseas territory which experiences, despite its tropical climate, a lot of stress on this resource. We develop specifications of linear and non linear expenditure systems, taking into account the...

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...

This paper deals with the determinants of enterprise creation in the 22 French regions from 1994 to 2003. We then estimate a dynamic panel data model which allows spatial heterogeneity to be modelled and which is compared with a specification without spatial heterogeneity. The estimation results...

Based on a detailed sample of time unbalanced panel data on residential water consumption in the French overseas territory of Réunion, we investigate which water price specification should be included in an econometric analysis of residential water demand. To identify the relevant price...

[eng] Inter-municipal cooperation in France involved more than 80 % of municipalities and inhabitants in 2006. There is a wide choice of legal and financial options for cooperation but their impact on municipal spending behavior is controversial, hence this study. We provide two results. First,...

Despite increasing co-operation between French municipalities, the structure of the local public sector may not have significantly changed. Although the central government expected that this co-operation would result in a decrease in the combined rates of municipal and inter-municipal taxation,...