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The Political Economy of Regionalism

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  • Sanjeev Goyal

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Klaas Staal

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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We examine the incentives of regions in a country to unite or to separate. We find that smaller regions have greater incentives to unite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on the whole, majority voting on separation and union generates excessive incentives to separate. This leads us to examine the scope of alternative political institutions and rules in overcoming the potential inefficiency. Our paper also provides a wide range of examples to illustrate the different institutions used in actual practice to resolve such problems.

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Paper provided by Econometric Society in its series Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers with number 0287.

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  2. Enrico Spolaore, 2009. "National Borders, Conflict and Peace," NBER Working Papers 15560, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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