Economic aspects of constitutional change: the case of Belgium
运用经济理论分析比利时为何不太可能经历弗拉芒分离，并回顾其从1970年至2013年的六次国家改革，探讨联邦制演变中的财政联邦主义与辅助性原则。
Is Belgium threatened by secession? In this article we highlight why Belgium is unlikely to experience the secession of Flanders and investigate Belgium’s journey to federalism. We first call upon tools provided by economic theory. Then we turn to facts, first having a look at Belgium’s history and second presenting the six reforms of the state which occurred between 1970 and 2013, progressively increasing the autonomy of Belgian regions and communities and making Belgian federalism an evolutionary, maybe endless, repeated game whose players have different strategies: an offensive one for the north and a conservative one for the south. Then we examine the contemporary dangers and discuss the outcome of Belgian game from the point of view of fiscal federalism and subsidiarity.