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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...

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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. …

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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...

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Food Prices and Political Instability

Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - CESifo - 2011

We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict … increase in the incidence of anti-government demonstrations, riots, and civil conflict. In the High Income Countries variations …-state conflict. Our empirical results point to a significant externality of variations in international food prices on Low Income …

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Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Reduce Land Conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - CESifo - 2014

based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …

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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 …

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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 …

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The Economics of Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - CESifo - 2012

as democratic outcomes, borders in a world of rent-seeking Leviathans, and borders as outcomes of conflict and wars …

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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2012

conflict and more intense fighting. …

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