Fiscal Centralization Under the Shadow of War

• In Event: Conflict, Political Economy and Political Survival

Brief Overview

We use a game-theoretic model to examine fiscal centralization as a bargaining problem between a ruler and the intermediaries in the periphery. We test the predictions of the model with cross-country data as well as qualitative case studies.

Authors

• Asli Cansunar, University of Washington

• Daniel Alexander Novick Goldstein, University of Oslo

• Yusuf Magiya, New York University Abu Dhabi