“...•The level of public R&D spending in the European countries depends on the scale of their national economy, trade and sectoral specialisation.•Unlike for other...”

“...We analyse voluntary coalition formation using a unique panel data for 1056 municipalities in the French region of Brittany between 1995 and 2002. We use a...”

“...This paper aims at testing whether there exist spending interactions between French municipalities by estimating a dynamic panel data model. Our results...”

“...The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of intermunicipal fiscal cooperation on municipal public spending, based on the French experience. A model...”

“...This article provides empirical evidence on the impact of local taxation on property prices, controlling for the local public spending, using data on property...”

“...This paper investigates the hypothesis that local politics has an impact on local taxation in the French public sector by using a cross-sectional dataset on...”

“...The main purpose of this article is to assess the existence of an agglomeration rent in the French local tax setting. In order to perform that test, we first...”

“...We investigate the interactions between countries, and their effect on the discretionary (i.e. the cyclically-adjusted and interest-adjusted) components of...”

“...ABSTRACT We study the business tax (“taxe professionnelle”) behavior of the intermediate level (department) of local government in France and test in the same...”

“...RésuméDans cet article, nous étudions l’existence d’interactions stratégiques entre les anciens États membres de l’ ue 15 et les nouveaux entrants d’Europe de...”