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death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that … the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but 62% of … the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …
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I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …
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In this paper we examine a model of terrorism which focuses on the tradeoffs facing a terrorist organization that has the ability to utilize either or both suicide and conventional terrorism tactics. The terrorist organization’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target. Success...
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, 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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We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …
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as democratic outcomes, borders in a world of rent-seeking Leviathans, and borders as outcomes of conflict and wars …
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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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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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conflict and more intense fighting. …
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We study the association between resource rents and political stability, highlighting the importance of the distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model showing that increased rents are likely to be positively associated with the stability of a...
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