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Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2005

?). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from imperfect property-rights enforcement. When comparing autarky with …We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a … conflict. We find that importers of the contested resource gain unambiguously. By contrast, countries exporting the contested …

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Opium for the masses?: conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009

. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict, have strong impact on subsequent … where government law enforcement is weak. …

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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...

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NAFTA and Drug-Related Violence in Mexico

Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased trafficking profits of Mexican cartels, resulting in violent competition among them. We test this hypothesis by comparing changes in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction...

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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009

I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...

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Lock, stock, and barrel: A comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Gassebner, Martin; Luechinger, Simon - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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NAFTA and Drug-Related Violence in Mexico

Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022

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Violent groups and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2005

Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...

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The paradoxes of revenge in conflicts

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Runkel, Marco - 2008

We consider a differential game of a conflict between two factions who both have a desire to exact revenge. We show …-Palestinian conflict. We also discuss the implications of revenge-dependent preferences for welfare economics and their strategic value as …

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Socially-tolerable discrimination

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008

such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

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