Desmet, Klaus; Le Breton, Michel; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2006
) estimate the effect of political borders on economic growth
and run a number of counterfactual experiments to examine how the … paper of Alesina, Easterly and Matuszeski (2006) explores the
poor economic performance of �arti�cial� states, where borders … services,
defense, public orderand safety, environmental protection, and economic affairs. A second
measure takes only general …