Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152654 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 220
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper presents a positive theory of centralization of political decisions in an international union. My central claim is that lobbies play a role in determining the assignment of competencies to the union because their power of influence can increase or decrease under centralization. I show that in this setting a misallocation of prerogatives between the international union and national governments can be an outcome, both leading to excessive decentralization and/or non necessary centralization. This result reconciles a partial inconsistency that recent studies pointed out between the allocation of prerogatives in the EU and normative criteria, as laid out in the theoretical literature.
JEL: 
F02
D72
H77
P16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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