The art of making everybody happy: How to prevent a secession

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 403-435

  Le Breton, Michel ^a   Weber, Shlomo ^b,c  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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