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The Determinants of Trade Costs: A Random Coefficients Approach

Egger, Peter; Prusa, Jan - CESifo - 2014

This paper assesses whether the sensitivity of bilateral trade volumes to various trade cost factors is constant or varies across countries. It utilizes a random coeffcients model and analyses a cross-sectional sample of bilateral trade data for 96 countries in 2005. We expect the elasticity of...

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Determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - CESifo - 2010

The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....

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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data

Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana - CESifo - 2015

This article investigates whether the distance between origin and destination has played an increased role in shaping Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism destinations, as a consequence of the economic crisis,...

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War and Democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - CESifo - 1999

international conflict. In this paper, we investigate whether this motive is sufficiently important for war to persist in … Immanuel Kant (1795, 1991) always exists. The reason is that in the absence of the threat of war, leaders are unable to divert … exist with a positive war frequency. Third, if multiple equilibria exist, the perpetual peace equilibrium may be unstable in …

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National Borders, Conflict and Peace

Spolaore, Enrico - CESifo - 2009

framework where populations fight over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and …

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Wars of Conquest and Independence

Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - CESifo - 2013

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

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The Democratic Window of Opportunity: Evidence from Riots in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aidt, Toke; Leon, Gabriel - CESifo - 2014

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth

Arezki, Rabah; Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...

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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment when Citizens can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively

Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2010

We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which...

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Soft Paternalism, Merit Goods, and Normative Individualism

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2014

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals’ decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

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