Inefficiency and Self-Determination: Simulation-Based Evidence From Meiji Japan
| dc.creator | Weese, Eric | |
| dc.creator | Hayashi, Masayoshi | |
| dc.creator | Nishikawa, Masashi | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:44:28Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T09:48:47Z | |
| dc.description | Does the exercise of the right of self-determination lead to inefficiency? This paper considers a set of centrally planned municipal mergers during the Meiji period, with data from Gifu prefecture. The observed merger pattern can be explained as a social optimum based on a very simple indiidual utility function. If individual villages had been allowed to choose their merger partners, counterfactual simulations show that the core is always non-empty, but core partitions contain about 80% more (post-merger) municipalities than the social optimum. Simulations are possible because core partitions can be calculated using repeated application of a mixed integer program. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.211545 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211545/files/japan7.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211545 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/612545 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211545 | |
| dc.title | Inefficiency and Self-Determination: Simulation-Based Evidence From Meiji Japan | |
| dc.type | Text |