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Ahlerup, Pelle - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

paper shows, theoretically and empirically, that moderate earthquakes increase the risk of civil wars, but that stronger … (and therefore more rare) earthquakes instead reduce the risk of civil wars. We use an exhaustive dataset on earthquakes … from 1947 to 2001 collected by seismologists. The association between earthquakes and the incidence of civil war is …

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Discounting and relative prices in assessing future environmental damages

Hoel, Michael; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

Environmentalists are often upset at the effect of discounting costs of future environmental damage, e.g. due to climate change. An often overlooked message is that we should discount costs but also take into account the increase in the relative price of the ecosystem service endangered. The...

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Conflict Diamonds

Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

’Conflict diamonds’ refers to the fatal role that diamonds are believed to have played in several African conflicts. The article analyzes the impact of diamond abundance on economic growth in light of the broader, previously discovered empirical finding of a ’curse of natural resources’....

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Diamonds Are a Rebel’s Best Friend

Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

Many countries that produce rough diamond have experienced a highly adverse pattern of economic development. In this article, we propose that the primary reason for the negative impact is that diamonds easily become the prize in predatory struggles between loot-seeking rebels and more or less...

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What Explains the International Location of Industry? -The Case of Clothing

Tengstam, Sven - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

The clothing sector has been a driver of diversification and growth for countries that have graduated into middle income. Using a partial adjustment panel data model for 61 countries 1975-2000, we investigate the global international location of clothing production by using a combination of...

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What Explains the International Location of the Clothing Industry?

Tengstam, Sven - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

The clothing sector has been a driver of diversification and growth for countries that have graduated into middle income. Using a partial adjustment panel data model, this study tries to explain the international location of clothing production based on a combination of variables suggested by...

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Reference-Dependent Utility in an Industrial Cluster

Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

This article tries to explain the exceptional levels of knowledge creation in certain industrial clusters, levels that are seemingly higher than what is implied by the usual models of atomistic agents who do not internalize externalities. For this purpose, we introduce reference-dependent...

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Natural Disasters and Government Turnover

Ahlerup, Pelle - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Natural disasters have been linked to both violent conflict and, in some settings, poor economic growth, but do they also drive government parties out of office? We study gov- ernment turnover in a global sample of more than 200 elections to the executive. Natural disasters are associated with...

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Remittances after natural disasters: Evidence from the 2004 Indian tsunami

Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, François-Charles - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

We examine the impact of the 2004 Indian tsunami on international remittance transfers using aggregate country data and synthetic control methodology. This procedure implies identifying the causal impact of the disaster by comparing the share of remittances to GDP in Indonesia, the country most...

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Are Natural Disasters Good for Economic Growth?

Ahlerup, Pelle - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Natural disasters plague the populations of many countries, and the international community often seeks to alleviate the human suffering by means of humanitarian aid. Do natural disasters also have negative effects on aggregate economic growth? This paper shows that natural disasters on average...

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