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Municipal co-financing - voluntary extortion?

Macheridis, Konstantin LU and Vaikla, Maarja LU (2014) NEKN01 20141
Department of Economics
Abstract (Swedish)
This thesis investigates the rationales of municipal co-financing. The introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line is used as a case study to investigate this concept. The empirical analysis is primarily based on 10 in-depth interviews – with decision makers, politicians and officials. Focus lies on Svalöv Municipality, who is co-financing the introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line (together with the other municipalities, the Region of Scania and the Swedish Transport Administration). Additionally, a questionnaire has been sent to Sweden’s 290 municipal mayors to examine if the patterns emerging from the in-depth interviews can be generalized.
It is concluded that municipal co-financing primarily is a way to... (More)
This thesis investigates the rationales of municipal co-financing. The introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line is used as a case study to investigate this concept. The empirical analysis is primarily based on 10 in-depth interviews – with decision makers, politicians and officials. Focus lies on Svalöv Municipality, who is co-financing the introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line (together with the other municipalities, the Region of Scania and the Swedish Transport Administration). Additionally, a questionnaire has been sent to Sweden’s 290 municipal mayors to examine if the patterns emerging from the in-depth interviews can be generalized.
It is concluded that municipal co-financing primarily is a way to distribute costs between the different agents who sign the agreement of co-financing. At the same time a large degree of information asymmetry is present. The Swedish Transport Administration is providing the calculations and the projections. Additionally, municipal co-financing is becoming increasingly common. In the case of the introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line, Municipal co-financing was required – as the project would otherwise not have been conducted. (Less)
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author
Macheridis, Konstantin LU and Vaikla, Maarja LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
A case study of the introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line
course
NEKN01 20141
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Municipal co-financing, The Swedish Transport Administration, Bargaining, Iinfrastructure, railway, Kommunal Medfinansiering
language
English
id
4460500
date added to LUP
2014-06-23 10:43:10
date last changed
2014-06-23 10:43:10
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  abstract     = {{This thesis investigates the rationales of municipal co-financing. The introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line is used as a case study to investigate this concept. The empirical analysis is primarily based on 10 in-depth interviews – with decision makers, politicians and officials. Focus lies on Svalöv Municipality, who is co-financing the introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line (together with the other municipalities, the Region of Scania and the Swedish Transport Administration). Additionally, a questionnaire has been sent to Sweden’s 290 municipal mayors to examine if the patterns emerging from the in-depth interviews can be generalized.
It is concluded that municipal co-financing primarily is a way to distribute costs between the different agents who sign the agreement of co-financing. At the same time a large degree of information asymmetry is present. The Swedish Transport Administration is providing the calculations and the projections. Additionally, municipal co-financing is becoming increasingly common. In the case of the introduction of passenger trains on the Söderås Line, Municipal co-financing was required – as the project would otherwise not have been conducted.}},
  author       = {{Macheridis, Konstantin and Vaikla, Maarja}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Municipal co-financing - voluntary extortion?}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}