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A Coalition-Formation Approach to Equilibrium Federations and Trading Blocs

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Burbidge, John B.
James A. DePater
Gordon M. Meyers
Abhijit Sengupta

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The authors develop a model in which states may choose to form coalitions to capture efficiency gains from policy coordination. Joining a coalition entails setting the policy variable to maximize the coalition's aggregate payoff at a Nash equilibrium against nonmembers and to commit to a transfer scheme to share the gains. With two states, the unique equilibrium structure is complete federation; with more than two states, incomplete federation can be the unique equilibrium. Interpreting this result in terms of custom unions, the trend to trading-bloc formation may be equilibrium behavior even with cooperation and transfers within customs unions. Copyright 1997 by American Economic Association.

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Volume (Year): 87 (1997)
Issue (Month): 5 (December)
Pages: 940-56
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