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process as a costly fight to acquire shares of the GNP pie. It is shown, in particular, that a system of federalism is … appropriative activities under a hierarchical system of federalism than in a unified jurisdiction with a single central government …. Furthermore, if mobility is costless, then a form of federalism may be preferred by all agents even if it destroys resources. …
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While much has been written about inter-jurisdictional competition for tax revenues, especially concerning the choice between harmonization and competition, the literature has largely ignored intra-jurisdiction issues. The few articles examining this issue focus on how lower level governmental...
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Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004This paper models the trade-off between production and appropriation in the presence of simultaneous inter- and intra-group conflicts. The model exhibits a ‘group cohesion effect ’: if the contest between the...
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In many situations there is a potential for conflict both within and between groups. Examples include wars and civil wars and distributional conflict in multitiered organizations like federal states or big companies. This paper models such situations with a logistic technology of conflict. If...
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