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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data … estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies differ from pre …
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article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The … paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique …
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'the economic costs of mass violent conflict' by identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature. The … conflict. These models differ by complexity, ranging from standard regression analysis to computable general equilibrium models …
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We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals … are likely to report negative expectations if they were exposed to conflict events in the past. We combine individual and … household level data from the Northern Uganda Livelihood Survey of 2007 with a disaggregated conflict exposure index based on …
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In this paper we used the procedures developed in the Kumar and Russell (2002) growth-accounting study to examine cross-country growth during the 1990's. Using a data set comprising developed, newly industrialized, developing and transitional economies, we decomposed the growth of output per...
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This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or non-neutralities...
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The impact of ICT on the efficiency of different national telecommunication industries of the US, Germany, France, the UK and the Netherlands is analysed by using a stochastic production possibility frontier approach. The relative inefficiencies of these industries measured as distances to the...
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The neoclassical growth model predicts convergence of productivity or per capita output levels across regions. If participation in the labor force is constant, convergence of per capita income is implied. We investigate this hypothesis for the Iranian economy using data on demand deposits as a...
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This paper, investigates the effect war and terrorism, have on the covariance between oil prices and the indices of … models. Findings reported herein indicate that the covariance between stock and oil returns is affected by war. A tentative … effects. On the other hand, in the case of terrorist incidents that, vis-à-vis war, are of a more transitory nature and one …
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