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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization entails, necessarily but not exclusively, positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462105
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Why Does the Folk Theorem Do Not Seem to Work When It Is Mostly Needed?
Caro-Burnett, Johann; Galiani, Sebastián; Torrens, Gustavo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
: excessive arming and possibly the destruction associated with open conflict. Standard arguments in game theory suggest that more …, shows cycles of peace, arms races, and serious instances of open conflict. Long-lasting disarmed peace is rarely observed …. The paper develops a unified model of conflict that reveals possible theoretical mechanisms to produce such historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322731
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Peace and War in Territorial Disputes
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2004
Why do sovereign states sometimes fail to settle territorial disputes peacefully? Also, why do even peaceful settlements of territorial disputes rarely call for the resulting border to be unfortified? This paper explores a class of answers to these questions that is based on the following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468092
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Putting Global Governance in its Place
Rodrik, Dani - 2019
In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed to be an argument for greater global governance, but the logic requires scrutiny. There remains strong revealed demand for policy and institutional diversity among nations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480157
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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat G. - 2018
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large-scale, systematic evidence that the divide between skilled and unskilled workers worldwide is producing corresponding differences in the response of political preferences to trade shocks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480715
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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions
Ellis, Jesse - 2011
Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
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Conflicts and Common Interests in Committees
Li, Hao - 1999
Committees improve decisions by pooling independent information of members, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private evidence when members have conflicting preferences. We study how self-interest mediates these conflicting forces. When members' preferences differ, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471629
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On the Dynamics of Human Behavior : The Past, Present, and Future of Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation
Nunn, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I provide a theoretically-guided discussion of the dynamics of human behavior, focusing on the importance of culture (socially-learned information) and tradition (transmission of culture across generations). Decision-making that relies on tradition can be an effective strategy and arises in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938773
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The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction : Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia
Bazzi, Samuel - 2019
Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479929
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Mediating Conflict in the Lab
Casella, Alessandra - 2020
the theory in a lab experiment where two subjects negotiate how to share a resource; in case of conflict, the subjects … they translate into significant increases in conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482356