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Socio-political instability and the allocation of international aid by donors
Chauvet, Lisa - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003
This paper investigates empirically how three types of socio-political instability—elite, violent, and social—influence international aid allocation by donors. The results indicate that aid allocation depends on the type of instability (the effect of violent and elite instability is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074255
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Allocation de l'aide internationale et instabilités sociopolitiques
Chauvet, Lisa - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2002
This paper proposes an econometric analysis of the effects of three kinds of socio-political instability - violent, social and elite - on foreign aid allocation. Arellano and Bond [1991] application of the generalized method of moments estima­tions show that the effect of socio-political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072877
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Voting under the Threat of Secession: Accommodation vs. Repression
Anesi, Vincent; Donder, Philippe De - CESifo - 2011
We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium with a government’s type biased in favor of the minority. We propose a measure of secession risk and perform the comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021235
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Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields
Dan Kovenock J.; Roberson, Brian - CESifo - 2010
on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671699
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War and Natural Resource Exploitation
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2010
Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727286
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Wars of Conquest and Independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - CESifo - 2013
Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - CESifo - 2014
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and analyze how each group’s internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103399
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Extremism Drives Out Moderation
Klose, Bettina; Dan Kovenock J. - CESifo - 2012
, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547898
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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2012
conflict and more intense fighting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603853
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Brothers in Arms - An Experiment on the Alliance Puzzle
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2010
outside enemy, ‘brothers in arms’ may already anticipate future internal conflict about dividing the spoils of winning …; however, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833917