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Partisan Competition, Growth and the Franchise

Llavador, Humberto; Oxoby, Robert J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

, democracy expanded dramatically, giving birth to the first wave of democratization. The concurrence of these changes in the … the absence of condition (3) drives growth-deterring democratic expansions. Hence, too much and too little democracy can …

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Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game

Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are...

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Leadership in Collective Action

Esteban, Joan; Hauk, Esther - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

We extend the model of collective action in which groups compete for a budged by endogenizing the group platform, namely the specific mixture of public/private good and the distribution of the private good to group members which can be uniform or performance-based. While the group-optimal...

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Political Autonomy and Independence: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

We study the process by which subordinated regions of a country can obtain a more favourable political status. In our theoretical model a dominant and a dominated region first interact through a voting process that can lead to different degrees of autonomy. If this process fails then both...

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Olson vs. Coase: Coalitional Worth in Conflict

Esteban, Joan Mª; Sákovics, József - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the resolution to be sequential: First the alliance fights it out with the rest and in case they win later they fight it out among themselves. For three-player games, we find that it will...

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Democracy and the curse of natural resources

Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

, in countries with weak institutions. Natural resources may be bad for democracy by harming political turnover. Our model … also suggests a non-linear dependence of human capital on natural resources. For low levels of democracy human capital … depends negatively on natural resources, while for high levels of democracy the dependence is reversed. This theoretical …

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Do You Work or Do You Study? Children’s Work in a Comparative Historical Perspective

Camps, Enriqueta - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

In this paper we compare two historical scenarios very different one to each other both in institutional and geographical terms. What they have in common is the situation of relative poverty of most of the population. On the one side we are dealing with historical industrializing Catalonia in...

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One Kind of Lawlessness: Estimating the Welfare Cost of Somali Piracy

Besley, Tim; Fetzer, Thiemo; Mueller, Hannes - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of piracy attacks on shipping costs using a unique data set on shipping contracts in the dry bulk market. We look at shipping routes whose shortest path exposes them to piracy attacks and find that the increase in attacks in 2008 lead to around a ten percent...

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Reprisals Remembered: German-Greek Conflict and Car Sales during the Euro Crisis

Fouka, Vasiliki; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

During the Greek debt crisis after 2010, the German government insisted on harsh austerity measures. This led to a rapid cooling of relations between the Greek and German governments. We compile a new index of public acrimony between Germany and Greece based on newspaper reports and internet...

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Boycott or Buycott?: Internal Politics and Consumer Choices

Cuadras-Morató, Xavier; Raya, Josep Maria - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

Do political tensions affect economic relations? In particular, does politics significantly affect consumer choices? Firms are often threatened by consumer boycotts that pretend to modify their business strategies and behavior. Sometimes these are caused by general political conflicts. The main...

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