Formation of Nations in a Welfare-State Minded World

Oscar Volij and Nir Dagan ()

Staff General Research Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We model the endogenous formation of nations in a world economy where nations apply redistributive policies. We show that people's preference for stronger redistributive policies may lead to greater inequality in the world's distribution of income as a result of rich individuals tending to form their own nations. By the same token, stable economic integration occurs only when redistributive policies are not too strong.

Date: 2002-03-01

Published in Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2000, Vol. 2, pp. 157-181.

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Working Paper: Formation of Nations in a Welfare State Minded World (1999)
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