Bloch, Francis; Santiago S?chez-Pag?; Soubeyran, Raphael - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, …
This paper analyzes secession and group formation in a general model of contest inspired by Esteban and Ray (1999). This model encompasses as special cases rent seeking contests and policy conflicts, where agents lobby over the choice of a policy in a one-dimensional policy space. We show that...