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Population Increase, Extralegal Appropriation, and the End of Colonialism
Grossman, Herschel I. - 1993
Between 1946 and 1976, the European powers granted independence to all of their large colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia. This paper attempts to provide an economic explanation for this remarkable ending to the era of colonialism. The main theoretical innovation is to consider the effect of...
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Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars
Alesina, Alberto - 2017
The increase in army size observed in early modern times changed the way states conducted wars. Starting in the late 18th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. In order for the population to accept to fight and endure war, the government elites began to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455246
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Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention : Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
Dell, Melissa - 2016
This study uses discontinuities in U.S. strategies employed during the Vietnam War to estimate their causal impacts. It identifies the effects of bombing by exploiting rounding thresholds in an algorithm used to target air strikes. Bombing increased the military and political activities of the...
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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations
Fisman, Raymond - 2014
We study the impact of nationalism and interstate frictions on international economic relations by analyzing market reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer relative declines during each event window; a symmetric...
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Cross-border media and nationalism : Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2011
How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII: the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly...
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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions
Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
Mitchener, Kris J. - 2008
integration …
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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465719
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Is the International Diversification Potential Diminishing? Foreign Equity Inside and Outside the US
Lewis, Karen K. - 2006
capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation …
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