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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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paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …
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By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
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