Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?
构建了自愿市际合作的理论模型，利用法国市镇向市际层面转移职能的数据，通过阈值模型和Probit回归检验发现：居民偏好异质性并不阻碍合作，但财政潜力异质性会阻碍合作，且部分职能存在转移概率的阈值效应。
This paper proposes a theoretical model of voluntary intermunicipal cooperation and empirically tests its assertions through the French municipalities’ choices of transferring their competences to the intermunicipal level. Using an original threshold models inference procedure, a probit model is estimated on shared competences. Two main results arise. Contrary to the decentralisation theorem prediction, citizens’ preference heterogeneity does not hinder local cooperation, but fiscal potential heterogeneity does. Moreover, a zoo effect is at stake for some competences, for which a significant threshold effect in their transfer probability is identified.