private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The …

contrast, uncertainty about the catastrophic threshold typically causes coordination to collapse. Whether the probability …

. Whereas agents have a coordination motive to take the same position, at the social level effective market coordination per se …

Even when labour mobility is low, international integration affectslabour markets by making jobs more mobile. This runs … via product market integration, which is an essential element of European integration. Increasing job mobility aects the …

Global Games approach we can solve this coordination problem and eliminate the problem of multiple equilibria. We show how …

This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … rich, who can resort to private education. I also analyze the overall society-wide effect of the integration policy and …

concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants’ interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …

-West border; political integration is not rapidly followed by economic integration. Instead, we estimate that it takes at least …