independence process, socioeconomic and structural controls, and the level of development – in order to assess whether a) breaking … away from the former Yugoslavia delivered an ‘independence dividend’ to the newly independent countries and whether b …) independence had a more favourable impact in richer, rather than poorer territories. The results of the analysis underline that …

between sub-national states or regions. Using plausible counterfactual analysis, we assess the costs of independence for … independence takes on the calibrated frictions of a counterfactual independent country. If the main change that comes with the … independence of regions of larger countries is that their border with their former union partner comes to resemble a normal country …