| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP5153 |
| DP5153 Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization | |
| Joseph Francois; Miriam Manchin | |
| 发表日期 | 2005-07-23 |
| 出版年 | 2005 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper we introduce the notion of stability threshold that quantifies the minimal returns to size sufficient to prevent credible secession threats by regions of the country. Severity of internal tension has been linked to degree of polarization of citizens' preferences and characteristics. We show that the increasing degree of polarization does not, in general, raise the stability threshold, even though this hypothesis holds in some asymptotic sense. Thus, somewhat counter-intuitively, the relation between polarization and the stability threshold is ambiguous. We also examine the question of the number of smaller countries to be created if the unity of the large country is not sustainable, and investigate the link between this number and the degree of the country polarization. We find that the stable number of countries also behaves non-monotonically with respect to polarization indices. However, monotonicity does emerge when the stable number is large, and the stable number decreases when polarization rises. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Polarization Secession Stability threshold Clusters |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp5153 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534038 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joseph Francois,Miriam Manchin. DP5153 Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization. 2005. |
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