Sorting equilibrium in a multi-jurisdiction model

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gomberg, A
• 署名单位: Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0531(03)00256-4
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 138-154
• 关键词: jurisdictions; sorting equilibrium; EXISTENCE

摘要

This paper analyzes a general model of an economy with heterogeneous individuals choosing among two jurisdictions, such as towns or political parties. Each jurisdiction is described by its constitution, where a constitution is defined as a mapping from all possible population partitions into the (possibly multidimensional) policy space. This study is the first to establish sufficient conditions for existence of sorting equilibria in a two-jurisdiction model for a policy space of an arbitrary dimension. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.