Katrina's Window: Localism, Re-Segregation and Equitable Regionalism

Balancing Regionalism and Localism: How Institutions and Incentives Shape American Transportation Policy

Public policy decisions are increasingly made by regional governance efforts that involve diverse decision makers from multiple government units within a geographic region. These decision-making bodies face competing pressures to represent regional and local interests. We study how decision makers balance preferences for regionalism and localism within metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs)...

Localism and Trans-regionalism in Punjab: Inception of Muslim Modernism in Sir Fazl-i-Husain

Localism and Welfare∗

We analyze competition between a mass media producer and providers of local content. The business model is that of a two-sided market: advertising finances programming. Broadcasters compete by choosing ad levels and program quality. The local market decision (advertising level) is tailored to each market, while the quality decision is one-size fits all. This means there are externalities betwee...

Regionalism and Growth

Small Countries and Regionalism

The number of regional trade agreements has nearly doubled in the last four years. Interestingly, relatively small countries have put enormous effort into joining regional agreements with larger countries during this period. In this paper, we address the following question: why are small countries so eager to be a part of these agreements? We construct a general equilibrium model of a natural t...