@article{Weese:211545,
      recid = {211545},
      author = {Weese, Eric and Hayashi, Masayoshi and Nishikawa, Masashi},
      title = {Inefficiency and Self-Determination: Simulation-Based  Evidence From Meiji Japan},
      address = {2015-08},
      number = {1858-2016-152747},
      series = {Economic Growth Center Discussion paper},
      pages = {98},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211545},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.211545},
}