Due to moral hazard problems, municipal mergers in Japan did not result in as many amalgamations as a central planner …

Political coalition formation games can describe the formation and dissolution of nations, as well as the creation of … coalition governments, the establishment of political parties, and other similar phenomena. These games have been studied from a … of estimating political coalition formation models with many-player coalitions, and then illustrates this method by …

Due to moral hazard problems, municipal mergers in Japan did not result in as many amalgamations as a central planner …

coalition manipulations are equivalent to voting rules on uniform policies. -- Federalism ; Asymmetric Information ; Strategy …

that the grand coalition could be stable for both types of agreement, but for extremely high degrees of effectiveness of …

planned municipal mergers during the Meiji period, with data from Gifu prefecture. The observed merger pattern can be … choose their merger partners, counterfactual simulations show that the core is always non-empty, but core partitions contain …

This paper analyzes empirically the coalition formation of local governments. We introduce a novel econometric strategy … the merger decisions. Moreover, we are able to estimate the causal effect of the subsidy scheme on the merger decisions … using a regression discontinuity design. We find that the local political environment is relevant for the merger decision …

spillovers in technology agreements. We utilize the coalition-proof concept to refine the set of Nash equilibria and identify …