The Zollverein and the formation of a customs union

The Zollverein, the German customs union of 1834, was the institutional centrepiece of Germany's economic unification. A bargaining model is applied to analyze the structure of its negotiation process and accession sequence. The existence of negative coalition externalities, the effect of a c...

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Main Author: Ploeckl, F
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2010