Self-Serving Mayors and Local Government Consolidations in Japan
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Keywords
local government; mayor; incentives; merger; public choice;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2010-10-16 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-HIS-2010-10-16 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2010-10-16 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2010-10-16 (Macroeconomics)
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