Abstract

AbstractEconomic growth is an important priority for many local governments. There is a long‐standing theoretical debate on how to best organize government for economic growth. There is surprisingly little empirical research focusing on how government organization affects regional growth. In this paper we forward several recent measures of government fragmentation in contrast to the common measure of government units per capita to examine how government competition influences growth, testing them in a metropolitan statistics area (MSA) growth model for 1992−2002. Going somewhat against the current embrace of regional collaboration, our results suggest that regions with relatively fragmented governments had stronger relative economic performance over the study's time frame.ResumenEl crecimiento económico es una prioridad importante para muchos gobiernos locales. Existe un debate teórico desde hace tiempo acerca de la mejor manera de organizar el gobierno para el crecimiento económico. Sorprendentemente apenas existe investigación empírica dedicada a cómo afecta la organización gubernamental al crecimiento regional. En este artículo avanzamos en el estudio de varias medidas recientes de fragmentación gubernamental en contraste con la medida habitual de unidades de gobierno per cápita para examinar como influye en el crecimiento la competencia gubernamental, probándolas en un modelo de crecimiento de área estadística metropolitana (MSA, siglas en inglés) para 1992–2002. En contra en cierto modo de la corriente actual de colaboración regional, nuestros resultados sugieren que las regiones con gobiernos relativamente fragmentados manifestaron un desempeño económico relativo más fuerte para el periodo del estudio.

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