Municipal co-financing - voluntary extortion?
(2014) NEKN01 20141Department 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
- 2014
- 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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