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Grossman, Gene M. - 2016

This paper reviews the literature on governments' motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the paper focuses on the purpose of multilateral...

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Economic integration and political disintegration

Alesina, Alberto; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - In: The American economic review 90 (2000) 5, pp. 1276-1296

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Economic Integration and Political Disintegration

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

Trade liberalization and political separatism go hand in hand. In a world of trade restrictions, large countries enjoy economic benefits because political boundaries determine the size of the market. In a world of free trade and global markets even relatively small cultural, linguistic or ethnic...

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On the Number and Size of Nations

Alesina, Alberto - 1995

This paper studies the equilibrium determination of the number of political jurisdictions in different political regimes, democratic or not, and in different economic environments, with more or less economic integration. We focus on the trade off between the benefits of large jurisdictions in...

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The Political Economy of International Unions

Alesina, Alberto - 2001

We model an international union as a group of countries deciding together the provision of certain public goods and policies because of spillovers. The countries are heterogeneous either in preferences and/or in economic fundamentals. The trade off between the benefits of coordination and the...

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Fairness and redistribution

Alesina, Alberto; Angeletos, Marios - In: The American economic review 95 (2005) 4, pp. 960-980

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Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alesina, Alberto - 2001

these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …

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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto - 2001

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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Immigration and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto - 2018

We design and conduct large-scale surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how natives' perceptions of immigrants influence their preferences for redistribution. We find strikingly large biases in natives' perceptions of the number and characteristics of immigrants: in all...

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