Empirical evidence of fiscal common pool problem and municipal mergers

• Project/Area Number: 26780181
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Public finance/Public economy
• Research Institution: Musashi University
• Principal Investigator: Hirota Haruaki 武蔵大学, 経済学部, 教授 (10553141)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
• Keywords: 市町村合併 / コモン・プール問題 / 意思決定プロセスの断片化 / 議会規模 / 地方財政健全化法 / 財政ルール / スピルオーバー効果 / 地方財政健全化 / 相互依存関係 / 基準財財政需要額 / 行政広域化 / 都道府県 / 地方交付税 / 地方債 / 類似団体 / 合併特例 / 地方議会 / 政府間財政関係

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of our research is to evaluate a fiscal common pool problem in Japanese municipal mergers. We identify causal effects by applying propensity score matching within a differences-in-differences framework to address the problems of endogeneity bias and sample selection bias. Our results show that the subordinate merger partner suffers from adverse fiscal conditions and creates a fiscal common pool problem in public projects just before mergers.

Also, we focus on the relationship between council size and land development expenditure of local government using a dataset of municipalities in Japan from FY2004. We deal with an identification of causal effects by applying regression discontinuity design's framework to address problem of endogeneity bias. Our results show that land development expenditure of large municipalities induce the fiscal common-pool problem through public projects.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data (2017)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki、Yunoue Hideo
  • Journal Title: Regional Science and Urban Economics Volume: 66 Pages: 132-149
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.05.010
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] The effects of the new fiscal rule and creative accounting: Empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities (2017)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki, Yunoue Hideo
  • Journal Title: MPRA Volume: 79812 Pages: 1-24
• [Journal Article] 市町村歳出と人口規模の実証分析 (2017)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Journal Title: 公共選択 Volume: 67 Pages: 5-22
  • NAID: 40021126605
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 地方財政健全化指標における相互依存関係の実証分析 (2017)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Journal Title: MPRA Volume: 77571 Pages: 1-20
  • NAID: 40021779914
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] Does municipal mergers internalize spatial spillover effects? Empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities (2017)
  • Author(s): Hitoshi Saito, Haruaki Hirota, Hideo Yunoue, Miki Miyaki
  • Journal Title: MPRA Volume: 76833 Pages: 1-15
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] 地方財政におけるコモン・プール問題の概観 (2016)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗
  • Journal Title: JAPA九州 Volume: 40 Pages: 15-16
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data (2016)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki and Yunoue Hideo
  • Journal Title: MPRA Volume: 72455 Pages: 1-40
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] 基準財政需要額の算定構造に関する分析-都道府県パネルデータによる検証- (2016)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Journal Title: 会計検査研究 Volume: 53 Pages: 13-28
  • NAID: 40020776541
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data (2016)
  • Author(s): Haruaki Hirota and Hideo Yunoue
  • Journal Title: MPRA working paper Volume: 68890 Pages: 1-35
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Municipal Mergers and Special Provisions of Local Council Members in Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Haruaki Hirota and Hideo Yunoue
  • Journal Title: The Japanese Political Economy Volume: 40 Issue: 3-4 Pages: 96-116
  • DOI: 10.1080/2329194x.2014.1006453
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 地方財政健全化指標における相互依存関係の実証分析 (2015)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Journal Title: MPRA working paper Volume: 61223 Pages: 1-16
  • NAID: 40021779914
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 基準財政需要額の算定構造の再検証-都道府県パネルデータによる実証分析- (2015)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Journal Title: MPRA working paper Volume: 61221 Pages: 1-17
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Does local council size affect land development expenditure? Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data (2014)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki and Yunoue Hideo
  • Journal Title: The Empirical Economics Letters Volume: 13 Pages: 993-997
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 平成の大合併と地方債 (2014)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Journal Title: 地方財政 Volume: 53 Pages: 125-145
  • NAID: 40020323193
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Does municipal mergers internalize spatial spillover effects? Empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities (2017)
  • Author(s): Hitoshi Saito, Haruaki Hirota, Hideo Yunoue, Miki Miyaki
  • Organizer: (The Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) seminar, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
  • Place of Presentation: Australia National University(オーストラリア・キャンベラ)
  • Year and Date: 2017-02-15
• [Presentation] "Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data" (2017)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki, Yunoue Hideo
  • Organizer: 財政・公共経済ワークショップ, 東京大学大学院経済学研究科
• [Presentation] Does municipal mergers internalize spatial spillover effects? Empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities (2017)
  • Author(s): Hitoshi Saito, Haruaki Hirota, Hideo Yunoue, Miki Miyaki
  • Organizer: 73rd Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The effects of the new fiscal rule and creative accounting: Empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities (2017)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki, Yunoue Hideo
  • Organizer: 公共選択学会第21回大会, 関西学院大学
• [Presentation] The effects of the new fiscal rule and creative accounting: Empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities (2017)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki, Yunoue Hideo
  • Organizer: 2017 Annual Australasian Public Choice Conference, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne, Australia
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data (2016)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki and Yunoue Hideo
  • Organizer: 2016 (9th) Australasian Public Choice Conference, Australian National University
  • Place of Presentation: Australia National University(オーストラリア・キャンベラ)
  • Year and Date: 2016-12-08
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data (2016)
  • Author(s): Hirota Haruaki and Yunoue Hideo
  • Organizer: (The Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) seminar, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
  • Place of Presentation: Australia National University(オーストラリア・キャンベラ)
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-03
• [Presentation] Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data (2016)
  • Author(s): Haruaki Hirota and Hideo Yunoue
  • Organizer: (Western Economic Association International, 12th International Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Nanyang Technological University, シンガポール
  • Year and Date: 2016-01-07
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data (2015)
  • Author(s): Haruaki Hirota and Hideo Yunoue
  • Organizer: International Research Forum Political economics on the market, non-market, and collective activity
  • Place of Presentation: 京都産業大学(京都府・京都市)
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-05
• [Presentation] 市町村歳出と人口規模の実証分析 (2015)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Organizer: 日本地方財政学会第23回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 関東学院大学（神奈川県・横浜市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-16
• [Presentation] 地方財政健全化指標と財政変数間の相互依存関係の実証分析 (2014)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Organizer: 公共選択学会第18回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 青山学院大学(東京都・渋谷区)
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-29 – 2014-11-30
• [Presentation] 地方財政健全化指標と財政変数間の相互依存関係の実証分析 (2014)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Organizer: 西神戸公共政策研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 兵庫県立大学(兵庫県・神戸市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-21
• [Presentation] 基準財政需要額の算定構造の再検証-都道府県パネルデータによる実証分析- (2014)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Organizer: 日本財政学会第71回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 中京大学(愛知県・名古屋市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-26 – 2014-10-27
• [Presentation] 地方財政健全化指標と財政変数間の相互依存関係の実証分析 (2014)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Organizer: 地方財政研究会 2014年度第2回研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪学院大学(大阪府・吹田市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-04
• [Presentation] 地方財政健全化指標と財政変数間の相互依存関係の実証分析 (2014)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Organizer: 自治体経営効率化セミナー
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌大学(北海道・札幌市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-18
• [Presentation] 1 人当たり基準財政需要額の算定構造の再検証-都道府県パネルデータによる実証分析- (2014)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Organizer: 関西税財政研究会 2014 年度第1 回研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪学院大学(大阪府・吹田市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-18
• [Presentation] 地方財政健全化指標における相関関係の実証分析 (2014)
  • Author(s): 広田啓朗・湯之上英雄
  • Organizer: 関西税財政研究会 2014 年度第1 回研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪学院大学(大阪府・吹田市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-18
• [Book] 多様化する社会と多元化する知 －「当たり前」を疑うことで見える世界 (2017)
  • Author(s): 片山悠樹・山本達也・吉井哲・山本達也・山中仁美・田中謙一・矢部謙太郎・藤重博美・山本健・佐々木俊一郎・広田啓朗・青木康晴・兪敏浩・今野茂充・岩田正隆
  • Total Pages: 223
  • Publisher: ナカニシヤ出版
• [Book] 実践 財政学 －基礎・理論・政策を学ぶ (2017)
  • Author(s): 赤井伸郎・新居理有・石川達哉・湯之上英雄・広田啓朗・倉本宜史・金坂成通・宮錦三樹・齊藤仁・足立泰美・八塩裕之・鈴木善充・前川聡子
  • Total Pages: 354
  • Publisher: 有斐閣
• [Remarks] 広田啓朗の個人ページ
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