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Topic: Mobility-Based Gerrymandering: Theory and Evidence
Presenter: Prof. Federico Revelli, University of Torino, Italy and UEH Research Fellow
Time: 14:30, Thursday, May 14, 2026
Location: Room B1-10.01, 279 Nguyen Tri Phuong St, Dien Hong Ward, HCMC
Abstract:
This paper models theoretically and tests empirically the hypothesis that the decision about the location of a public bad within a multi-tiered structure of government (a facility providing benefits throughout the federation but inflicting damage to the region hosting it) can be driven by strategic electoral considerations exploiting the heterogeneous migration responses to the location of the public bad by voters of different ideologies – a sort of mobility-based gerrymandering. As long as the average utility loss from living close to the public bad is larger for progressives than it is for conservatives, conservative and progressive central governments will pursue opposite strategies. The former locate the public bad in an electorally tight region to induce progressive voters to exit and gain the region for the conservative party, while the latter attempt to spread progressive voters out of safe and into electorally tight regions. An application to waste treatment plant locations across Italian municipalities returns evidence in support of the model’s main hypotheses.
About presenter:
Federico Revelli holds a PhD in Economics from University College London (1998) and is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Torino, Italy, where he acted as Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics from 2015 to 2021. He is Fellow of the CESifo Research Network, Munich (Germany), Research Fellow at UEH University, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), and Adjunct Professor at KKU University, Khon Kaen (Thailand). His research interests are in empirical fiscal federalism, multilevel governance, cultural and environmental policy, and public adaptation to climate change. He has published in several journals, including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, and authored the book Empirical Fiscal Federalism for Cambridge University Press.
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