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framework where populations fight over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and …
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political unions; and (c) discusses extensions and directions for further research. -- wars ; alliances ; conflict technology … ; defense ; economies of scale ; heterogeneity costs ; secessions ; size of nations … framework where populations fight over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and …
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framework where populations fight over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and …
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This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
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as democratic outcomes, borders in a world of rent-seeking Leviathans, and borders as outcomes of conflict and wars …
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This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290075
This paper discusses the process of European institutional integration from a political-economy perspective, linking the long-standing political debate on the nature of the European project to the recent economic literature on political integration and disintegration. First, we introduce the...
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Economic reforms in India and China have not only resulted in higher GDP, Gross Capital Formation but also in improvement of output pure technical and scale inefficiencies. The effect of reforms is felt stronger in Chinese Economy than the Indian Economy
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This paper extends the results of Rodrik (1998), Alesina and Wacziarg (1998), Ram (2009), Jetter and Parmeter (2015), Musau (2018) and other replication studies by providing dynamic panel estimates of the influence of country size and openness on government size. The estimates suggest that past...
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tradeoff induces agents' preferences over different geographical configurations, thus determining the likelihood of secessions …
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