country. However, we find indications of a significant regional increase after secession became a real option in 2014. We …

Why fight secession? This paper is a case study on this question, asking why the North chose to fight the South in the … secession appear unable to explain the results, suggesting that economic motivations were important to support for fighting the …

This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning …

about the costs of secession for her community. This paper shows that this uncertainty is a central cause of secession … minority leader, signaling incentives make secession the unique equilibrium outcome, whether mutually advantageous compromises … their borders. -- Constitutional commitment ; secession ; signaling ; regional redistribution …

This paper analyses the case of a local secession, i.e. the birth of a new local jurisdiction by separation from an … model to the data by exploiting the secession of the Italian region of Molise from Abruzzo, a unique event in Italian …

or unions. After calibrating the model to Europe, we identify the regions prone to secession and the countries most …

determining the likelihood of secession and unification. We provide empirical support for choosing genetic distances as a proxy of … cultural heterogeneity. By using data on genetic distances, we examine the stability of the current map of Europe and identify … the regions prone to secession and the countries that are more likely to merge. Our framework is further applied to …