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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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

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Domino Secessions : Evidence from the U.S

Lacroix, Jean; Mitchener, Kris; Oosterlinck, Kim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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 …

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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China

Heblich, Stephan; Seror, Marlon; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We identify negative spillovers exerted by large, successful manufacturing plants on other local production facilities in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. Our identification strategy exploits the...

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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands

Henry, Peter Blair - 2008

Recent work emphasizes the primacy of differences in countries' colonially-bequeathed property rights and legal systems for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter example to this long-run view of income determination. Both...

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Economic Integration and Political Disintegration

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

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 even relatively small cultural, linguistic or ethnic...

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Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution

Galiani, Sebastian - 2016

Why did the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire mount a rebellion? Even more puzzling, why didn't the British agree to have American representation in Parliament and quickly settle the dispute peacefully? At first glance, it would appear that a deal could have been reached to share...

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Non-Legal-Tender Paper Money : The Structure and Performance of Maryland's Bills of Credit, 1767-1775

Celia, Jim - 2014

Maryland's non-legal-tender paper money emissions between 1765 and 1775 are reconstructed to determine the quantities outstanding and their redemption dates, providing a substantial correction to the literature. Over 80 percent of this paper money's current market value was expected real asset...

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Betting on Secession : Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2013

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 …

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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis

Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...

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Wayfair : A Step Towards the Destination, But Sales Tax Competition Remains

Bruce, Donald J.; Fox, William F.; Shute, Alannah M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the landmark 2018 Wayfair case greatly improved state governments' ability to enforce collection of sales taxes on a destination basis. This has reduced state tax competition with an essentially-untaxed internet, but has brought traditional cross-border...

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