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Voting under the threat of secession: accommodation vs. repression

Anesi, Vincent; Donder, Philippe De - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

We build a simple model of secession crises where a majority of voters may wish to accommodate the minority in order to prevent a secession attempt. We first show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium, where the median voter is decisive and most prefers a government’s type that is...

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Difference-form group contests

Cubel, María; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014

Contests are situations in which a set of agents compete for a valuable object, rent or award. The present paper analyzes difference-form group contests, that is, contests fought among groups and where their probability of victory depends on the difference of their effective efforts. First, we...

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The effect of within-group inequality in a conflict against a unitary threat

Cubel, Maria; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

A group of agents must defend their individual income from an external threat by pooling their efforts against it. The winner of this confrontation is determined by a contest success function where members’ efforts may display different degrees of complementarity. Individual effort is costly...

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An axiomatization of difference-form contest success functions

Cubel, María; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2015

This paper presents an axiomatic characterization of difference-form group contests, that is, contests fought among groups and where their probability of victory depends on the difference of their effective efforts. This axiomatization rests on the property of Absolute Consistency, stating that...

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Does tax enforcement counteract the negative effects of terrorism? A case study of the Basque Country

Salvadori, Luca - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2015

This paper analyses the impact of terrorism on tax enforcement policies by focusing on the case of the Basque Country …. The presence of externalities in tax administration attributable to the costs of terrorism is investigated by undertaking … sources. By employing ordered response models, evidence is found of the negative impact of terrorism on tax enforcement as it …

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Does tax enforcement counteract the negative effects of terrorism? A case study of the Basque Country

Salvadori, Luca - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2015

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Does partisan alignment affect the electoral reward of intergovernmental transfers?

Solé-Ollé, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2008

In this paper we test the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants allocated to co-partisans buy more political support than grants allocated to local governments controlled by opposition parties. We use a rich Spanish database containing information about the grants received by 617...

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Plurality versus proportional electoral rule: which is most representative of voters?

Piolatto, Amedeo - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009

This study compares the representativeness of voters in the proportional electoral system with the situation under plurality rule. Representativeness is commonly measured by comparing parties’ received votes with their shares of seats in the Parliament; this implies that proportional rule...

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The probability of military rule in Africa, 1970-2007

Caruso, Raul; Costa, Jacopo; Ricciuti, Roberto - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

In this paper we empirically analyze the socio-economic determinants of the existence of military dictatorships in Africa. A recent literature in political economy analyses the relationship between the civil undemocratic government and the military as an agency problem: the civilian government...

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Fiscal equalization and political conflict

Cubel, Maria - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

In this paper we analyze the political viability of equalization rules in the context of a decentralized country. In concrete terms, we suggest that when equalization devices are perceived as unfair by one or more regions, political conflict may emerge as a result. Political conflict is analysed...

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