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IDENTIFYING CORRUPTION RISKS IN THE DEFENSE AND SECURITY SECTOR: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE USING THE GOVERNMENT DEFENSE ANTI-CORRUPTION INDEX
Cover, Oliver; Mustafa, Saad - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 9 (2014) 2, pp. 27-33
difficulties in trying to define corruption in both general terms and within the context of the defense and security sector. It …
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Do Immigrants and Their Children Free Ride More Than Natives?
Osili, Una Okonkwo; Xie, Jia - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 28-34
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Chapter 22 Economics of Conflict: An Overview
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 649-709). 2007
In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced, represents a significant departure from the traditional paradigm...
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Chapter 21 Economics of Defense in a Globalized World
McGuire, Martin C. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 623-648). 2007
In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … defense economics has thus greatly increased, but the opportunity to exploit new insights from throughout economics grown … on the contributions expected of defense economics in a globalized world where old patterns of thinking risk obsolescence …
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
his paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...
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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...
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The struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds: Violence and public opinion in the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 3, pp. 354-368
This paper examines how violence influences the political preferences of an aggrieved constituency that is purportedly represented by militant factions. Using longitudinal public opinion poll micro data of the Palestinian population linked to data on fatalities from the Second Intifada, we find...
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David A; Klor, Esteban F; Miaari, Sami; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791998
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Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans
Konrad, Kai A.; Leininger, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action in a conflict with an external enemy. We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a self-enforcing norm coordinates the members on efficient...
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Parochial altruism in inter-group conflicts
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 45-48
We investigate parochial altruism, the combination of in-group altruism and out-group hostility, in an experimental conflict game preceded by a prisoner’s dilemma. Our data are consistent with parochial altruism, but cannot be explained by in-group pro-sociality or out-group hostility alone.
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