This paper looks at the economic impact of secession through the lens of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia … there has been no favourable economic impact of secession and that how secession was achieved is key in understanding the … subsequent economic performance of the newly independent countries. In cases of secession without conflict, independence did not …

as in the academic realm. A frequently made point is that allowing free secession may protect the minority’s interests … unattractive for the minority region. In contrast, limiting the secession possibilities by requiring the consent of a majority of …

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 …

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 …, raise the stability threshold, even though this hypothesis holds in some asymptotic sense. Thus, somewhat counter …