A Coalition-Formation Approach to Equilibrium Federations and Trading Blocs

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 940-956

  Burbidge, John B ^a   DePater, James A ^b   Myers, Gordon M ^b   Sengupta, Abhijit ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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