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Drugs and Violence in Afghanistan: A Panel VAR with Unobserved Common Factor Analysis
Bove, Vincenzo; Elia, Leandro - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2011
response to shocks; and the Mean Group Estimator to summarize our results across the provinces. Results suggest a conflict …
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The effect of within-group inequality in a conflict against a unitary threat
Cubel, Maria; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2012
of the group in the conflict and its members’ utilities vary with the degree of within-group inequality. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840249
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Differentials in Property Rights in a two sector-economy
Caruso, Raul - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2012
This paper presents a two-sector economy. In a contested sector two agents struggle to appropriate the maximum possible fraction of a contestable output. In an uncontested sector uncontested sector, they hold secure property rights over the production of some goods. Agents split their resource...
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A contest success function for rankings
Vesperoni, Alberto - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2013
A contest is a game where several players compete for winning prizes by expending costly efforts. We assume that the outcome of a contest is an ordered partition of the set of players (a ranking) and a contest success function assigns a probability to each possible outcome as a function of...
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Clash of Civilizations, Culture and Conflict
Gokmen, Gunes - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2012
In a series of influential studies, Huntington (1993a, 1993b, 1998) argued that the fundamental source of conflict in …. Given the fault lines between civilizations, the primary axis of conflict in the future will be civilization clashes. This … dyad has no effect on conflict involvement. However, even after controlling for temporal dependence, and for geographic …
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