Ethnic diversity and economic performance

A Alesina, E La Ferrara - Journal of economic literature, 2005 - aeaweb.org
We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity
on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on communities of different size and …

Participation in heterogeneous communities

A Alesina, E La Ferrara - The quarterly journal of economics, 2000 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies what determines group formation and the degree of participation when
the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity. We are …

Steuerwettbewerb und seine Auswirkungen auf Allokation und Distribution: Ein Überblick und eine empirische Analyse für die Schweiz

LP Feld - 2000 - books.google.com
English summary: Lars P. Feld evaluates the economic arguments for or against tax
competition in a federal polity and summarizes the empirical evidence concerned with the …

An agent‐based model of tourism destinations choice

E Alvarez, JG Brida - International Journal of Tourism Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study introduces a dynamic agent‐based model to represent the evolution of the choice
of destinations by tourists. The model assumes that this choice depends on their personal …

Tiebout economies with differential genetic types and endogenously chosen crowding characteristics

JP Conley, MH Wooders - Journal of Economic Theory, 2001 - Elsevier
We consider a Tiebout economy with differential crowding and public projects in which
agents are distinguished by their tastes and genetic endowments. Agents choose which …

Approximate cores of games and economies with clubs

A Kovalenkov, M Wooders - Journal of Economic Theory, 2003 - Elsevier
We introduce the framework of parameterized collections of games with and without
sidepayments and provide three nonemptiness of approximate core theorems. The …

Inequality and club formation

F Jaramillo, H Kempf, F Moizeau - Journal of Public Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
We study the relationship between social segmentation and income inequality by means of
the economic theory of clubs with private provision of the club good. After having …

Anonymous Lindahl pricing in a Tiebout economy with crowding types

JP Conley, MH Wooders - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1998 - JSTOR
Thecrowding types' model of a local public goods economy makes a distinction between
crowding effects and tastes of agents. Decentralization of the core is possible both with …

Strategic choice in tourism with differentiated crowding types

JG Brida, MJ Such-Devesa, M Faias, A Pinto - Economics Bulletin, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
We introduce a model of tourism choice where we consider that the choice of a tourism
resort by a tourist, depends not only on the characteristics of the product offered by the resort …

Anonymous price taking equilibrium in Tiebout economies with a continuum of agents: Existence and characterization

N Allouch, JP Conley, M Wooders - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
We introduce a model of a local public goods economy with a continuum of agents and
jurisdictions with finite but unbounded populations, where the set of possible projects for …