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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution

Perez, Wilson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...

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Rent Seekers in Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability …

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Networks of Military Alliances, Wars, and International Trade

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...

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Group Bargaining and Conflict

Quérou, Nicolas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata … which conflict will be preferred to negotiated agreements (and vice versa), and we derive welfare implications. Finally, we …

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A History of Violence: Testing the ‘Culture of Honor’ in the US South

Grosjean, Pauline - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact...

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Legal Families and Environmental Protection: Is there a Causal Relationship?

Vita, Giuseppe Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

In this paper we build up the analysis of La Porta et al. (1998), to investigate the importance of legal families in explaining the variations in pollution emissions in different countries. The main intuition behind our analysis is that the nations in which the rights of shareholders are more...

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Drought Management Plans and Water Availability in Agriculture. A Risk Assessment Model for a Southern European Basin

Blanco, Carlos Dionisio Pérez; Gómez, Carlos Mario Gómez - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The Drought Management Plans (DMPs) are a regulatory instrument that establishes priorities among the different water uses and defines more stringent constraints to access to publicly provided water during droughts, especially for non-priority uses such as agriculture. These plans have recently...

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Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...

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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies between Global Conventions through Land Use Changes: Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degradat...

Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...

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Why Are the Stakes So High? Misconceptions and Misunderstandings in China’s Global Quest for Energy Security

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

China’s global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention … outside China. This paper aims to de-politicize the debate on China’s global quest for energy resources and to put discussions … China’s global quest for energy resources. Finally, the paper ends with some concluding remarks on a more constructive way …

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