The effects of immigration on the host country are pervasive and long-term. It is not surprising that they have been extensively analysed, not least the economic effects which have been the subject of both theoretical and empirical research. While some of the empirical research has had a...

This paper analyses a simple inter-governmental transfer within a two-regional federal model with optimising regional governments and an exogenous federal government. Regions are linked by inter-regional migration of labour and households migrate from one region to the other in response to...

This paper develops a modelling framework within which questions of fiscal federalism can be handled. Regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models form one good approach for examining such questions. However, conventional regional CGE models contain little, if any, theory relating to...