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The stability and breakup of nations : a quantitative analysis

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorDesmet, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorLe Breton, Michel
dc.contributor.authorOrtuño, Ignacio
dc.contributor.authorWeber, Shlomo
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-11T17:57:11Z
dc.date.available2012-05-11T17:57:11Z
dc.date.issued2011-08-18
dc.description.abstractThis paper quantitatively analyzes the stability and breakup of nations. The tradeoff between increasing returns in the provision of public goods and the costs of greater cultural heterogeneity mediates agents’ preferences over different geographical configura- tions, thus determining the likelihood of secessions and unions. After calibrating the model to Europe, we identify the regions prone to secession and the countries most likely to merge. We then estimate the implied monetary gains from EU membership. As a test of the theory, we show that the model can account for the breakup of Yugoslavia and the dynamics of its disintegration.We find that economic differences between theYugoslav republics determined the order of disintegration, but cultural differences, though small, were key to the country’s instability. The paper also provides empirical support for the use of genetic distances as a proxy for cultural heterogeneity
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationJournal of Economic Growth, 2011, v. 16, n. 3, pp. 183-213
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10887-011-9068-z
dc.identifier.issn1381-4338
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage183
dc.identifier.publicationissue3
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage213
dc.identifier.publicationtitleJournal of Economic Growth
dc.identifier.publicationvolume16
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/14227
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Verlag
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://hdl.handle.net/10016/4806
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10887-011-9068-z
dc.rights© Springer
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.jelH77
dc.subject.jelD70
dc.subject.jelF02
dc.subject.jelH40
dc.subject.otherNation formation
dc.subject.otherGenetic diversity
dc.subject.otherCultural heterogeneity
dc.subject.otherSecession
dc.subject.otherUnification
dc.subject.otherEurope
dc.subject.otherYugoslavia
dc.titleThe stability and breakup of nations : a quantitative analysis
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