Cristin-resultat-ID: 1929616
Sist endret: 10. februar 2022, 10:47
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2021
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021

Fiscal easing in Local Governments Facing Potential Merger: Visible in Budgets or Hidden in Overruns?

Bidragsytere:
  • Jostein Askim
  • Kurt Houlberg og
  • Jan Erling Klausen

Tidsskrift

Public Administration
ISSN 0033-3298
e-ISSN 1467-9299
NVI-nivå 2

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2021
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85114890232

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Tittel

Fiscal easing in Local Governments Facing Potential Merger: Visible in Budgets or Hidden in Overruns?

Sammendrag

Mergers incentivize local governments to ease their fiscal policies before the merger is implemented. This incentive is powerful: it is known that local governments start easing fiscal policies even before they know for sure that a merger will occur and even if merging is what they want. Based on a study of Norwegian municipalities, this article shows that irrespective of whether local governments face certain or potential mergers, their fiscal easing is manifested primarily in budget overruns rather than candidly documented in budgets. Among local governments facing a potential merger, unwilling governments ease their fiscal policies more than willing ones do and to a larger extent apply a concealment strategy.

Bidragsytere

Jostein Askim

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for Statsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo

Kurt Houlberg

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Danmark
Aktiv cristin-person

Jan Erling Klausen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for Statsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo
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