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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 effect is observed for Chinese companies with high Japanese exposure …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474457
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461623
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456283
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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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Bend It Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462192
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The Complexion Gap : The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African Americans in the Rural Antebellum South
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2002
Historians of U.S. race relations typically portray southern whites as reluctant to recognize or act favorably upon complexion-based differences within the African American community. Historians contend that mixed-race African Americans (mulattoes) received few advantages as a result of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469757
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Inequality and Racial Backlash : Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen's Bureau
Chyn, Eric; Haggag, Kareem; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How do majority groups respond to a narrowing of inequality in racially polarized environments? We study this question by examining the effects of the Freedmen's Bureau, an agency created after the U.S. Civil War to provide aid to former slaves and launch institutional reform in the South. We...
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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? : Evidence from Chemistry
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential …In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected … it. In this manuscript, we study how fertile Chinese research is, as measured by citations. Using publication and …
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