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Inequality, Ethnicity and Civil Conflict
Huber, John D.; Mayoral, Laura - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust … empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing … data set with country- and group-level measures of inequality within and across ethnic groups. We then show that consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851402
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Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization
Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion as indicators for conflict. We show that the (equilibrium) level of conflict can be expressed as an (approximate) linear function of the Gini coefficient, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547270
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547366
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Promoting Rule Compliance in Daily-Life: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in the Public Libraries of Barcelona
Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
We study how to promote compliance with rules in every day situations. Having access to unique data on the universe of users of all public libraries in Barcelona, we test the effect of sending email messages with different contents. We find that users return their items earlier if asked to do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737377
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Ethnicity And Conflict: An Empirical Study
Esteban, Joan; Mayoral, Laura; Ray, Debraj - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
This paper examines the impact of ethnic divisions on conflict. The empirical specification is informed by a theoretical model of conflict (Esteban and Ray, 2011) in which equilibrium conflict intensity is related to just three distributional indices of diversity: ethnic polarization, ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738416
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Organisational structure, communication and group ethics
Ellman, Matthew; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007
This paper investigates experimentally how organisational decision processes affect the moral motivations of actors inside a firm that must forego profits to reduce harming a third party. In a "vertical" treatment, one insider unilaterally sets the harm-reduction strategy; the other can only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547180
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Are Self-regarding Subjects More Rational?
Arruñada, Benito; Casari, Marco; Pancotto, Francesca - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Through an experiment, we investigate how the level of rationality relates to concerns for equality and efficiency. Subjects perform dictator games and a guessing game. More rational subjects are not more frequently of the self-regarding type. When performing a comparison within the same degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547342
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Government Information Transparency
Albornoz, Facundo; Esteban, Joan; Vanin, Paolo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
independent national statistical offices, committed to truthful communication. We also find that whether inequality in income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851347
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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851409
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851452