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Counting Competitors: Relative Gains And Cooperation In Metropolitan America, Skip Krueger Apr 2006

Counting Competitors: Relative Gains And Cooperation In Metropolitan America, Skip Krueger

Working Group on Interlocal Services Cooperation

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Cooperation Costs And The Economics Of Intergovernmental Partnerships, Soji Adelaja, Laila A. Racevskis Oct 2005

Cooperation Costs And The Economics Of Intergovernmental Partnerships, Soji Adelaja, Laila A. Racevskis

Working Group on Interlocal Services Cooperation

Increasingly, state and local governments are promoting intergovernmental coordination, cooperation, and/or outright consolidation (3Cs) based on the perceived economies of scale advantages of such joint actions. However, the growing public finance and political science literature on interregional cooperation highlights the fact that transactions or other cooperation costs may preclude the realization of economies of scale benefits. Despite this evidence, some proponents go as far as to view such collaborative actions as effective policy tools for enhancing regional economic development and competitiveness. The role of cooperation costs and their relationship to economies of scale are not well documented in the literature. …


A Transaction Costs Explanation Of Interlocal Government Collaboration, Skip Krueger, Michael Mcguire Sep 2005

A Transaction Costs Explanation Of Interlocal Government Collaboration, Skip Krueger, Michael Mcguire

Working Group on Interlocal Services Cooperation

No abstract provided.