Asylum Provision: A Review of Economic Theories

Abstract

In recent years, economic theories have been used to examine asylum provision by non-persecutor countries. Unfortunately, the nature of the analyses makes the results inaccessible to many who are interested in understanding the topic from multidisciplinary perspectives but are unfamiliar with mathematical methods in economics. We communicate the findings of those analyses in non-mathematical fashion, thereby contributing to a facilitation of interdisciplinary research on asylum policy.

Keywords: asylum seeker, refugee protection, international public goods, cross-border externality, international coordination

JEL Classification: F22, F53, H87, O15