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We examine the incentives of regions in a country to unite or toseparate. We find that smaller regions have greater incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union generates excessiveincentives to separate. This leads us...
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We apply insights from the political economy of secession to analyse the early years of the Irish Free State (IFS). The …
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Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resource value and inter-regional transfers in a model on the optimal size of nations, and show that...
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employment across Mexican states. As a measure of formal employment we use the number of workers with permanent contracts … states are highly heterogeneous with respect to the degree of employment comovement and the association between the state and … national employment. Only in 11 of the 32 states we find that fluctuations in state employment are highly synchronized between …
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