Trade liberalization and political separatism go hand in hand. In a world of trade restrictions, large countries enjoy … economic benefits because political boundaries determine the size of the market. In a world of free trade and global markets … trade. The second is that the history of Nation-State creations and secessions is influenced by the trade regime …

determining a region's propensity to secede. Removing identity differences reduces the average support for secession from 7.5% to …

Abraham Lincoln's election produced Southern secession, Civil War, and abolition. Using a new database of slave sales … invade to oppose secession, and that emancipation of slaves without compensation was unlikely, both of which were …

We analyze how secession movements unfold and the interdependence of regions' decisions to secede. We first model and … then empirically examine how secessions can occur sequentially because the costs of secession decrease with the number of … these "domino secessions" using the canonical case of the secession of southern U.S. states in the 1860s. We establish that …