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Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004

from the Rose [2004] dataset, the ITERATE dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We … of terrorism, as well as internal and external conflict is equivalent to as much as a 30 percent tariff on trade. This is …

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War and relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. …

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The costs of organized violence : a review of the evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …

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The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Assessing the allocation of aid: developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, … - In: The Indian economic journal 54 (2006) 1, pp. 26-51

within the group of multilateral donors. Post-conflict resolution, the third altruistic motive considered in the paper …

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Government repression and the death toll from natural disasters

Costa, Samia - 2012

Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...

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Policies to Internalize Reciprocal International Spillovers

Altemeyer-Bartscher, Martin; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; … - 2021

An effective policy scheme to overcome the suboptimal low provision levels of global public goods is developed in this paper. By suggesting a decentralized approach to raise environmental public good provision levels we take account of the lack of a coercive global authority that is able to...

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Government Repression and the Death Toll from Natural Disasters

Costa, Samia - 2012

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Patterns of current account adjustment: insights from past experience

Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2007

The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...

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Rating assignments: lessons from international banks

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2009

This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are...

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