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We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of conflict. We postulate a Tullock contest success function...
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economy whose government uses optimal taxation to provide a public good, defense. The East is a centrally planned economy …. Utility depends on consumption, leisure and defense; defense is a characteristic which is an increasing function of the …
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the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on … types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … assets and liabilities. Our analysis also suggests that social interaction is associated with households holding larger …
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The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...
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This paper analyses coping strategies and consumption reactions of rural households in Nicaragua to hurricane Mitch, which caused massive losses in especially the agricultural sector in 1998. A switching-regression model confirms theoretical considerations which indicate that responses to...
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the rural space. This paper characterizes household access to assets and agrarian institutions of households engaged in … agricultural-specific assets (including land and livestock) and institutions is in general low, though highly heterogeneous across …
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-section of data on international cross-holdings of assets and environmental treaties. Our results support the notion that …
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resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability …
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national tests at the end of primary school. This shows that school resources have an important role to play in improving …
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taken a major step towards the process of identification of its own resources in order to create the necessary basis for the …
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