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Policies to Internalize Reciprocal International Spillovers

Altemeyer-Bartscher, Martin; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; … - 2021

An effective policy scheme to overcome the suboptimal low provision levels of global public goods is developed in this paper. By suggesting a decentralized approach to raise environmental public good provision levels we take account of the lack of a coercive global authority that is able to...

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Government Repression and the Death Toll from Natural Disasters

Costa, Samia - 2012

Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...

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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Financial Development on International Trade : Evidence from the CEEC-6

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2021

This paper analyses the relationship between international trade and financial development in six EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-6) using dynamic panel data approaches, specifically the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and pooled mean group (PMG) estimators. The...

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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience

Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021

The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...

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Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources

Barrett, Scott - 1994

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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018

This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...

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Arming in the Global Economy : The Importance of Trade with Enemies and Friends

Garfinkel, Michelle R. - 2019

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …

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COVID-19 Fatalities and Internal Conflict : Does Government Economic Support Matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2021

In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the … COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively associated with internal conflict in countries with lower levels of … countries, the estimation results demonstrate that the positive effect of COVID-19 fatality rates on internal conflict may …

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The Effect of Corruption on Internal Conflict in Iran Using Newspaper Coverage

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption …

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International Trade and Stable Resolutions of Resource Disputes

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022

We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset ﬁrst arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states’ military capacities, but...

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