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 …

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 …

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 …

determining a region's propensity to secede. Removing identity differences reduces the average support for secession from 7.5% to …

We analyze how secession movements unfold and the interdependence of regions' decisions to secede. We first model and … then empirically examine how secessions can occur sequentially because the costs of secession decrease with the number of … these "domino secessions" using the canonical case of the secession of southern U.S. states in the 1860s. We establish that …