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Sea Surface Temperature and Tuna Catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Under Climate Change
Mediodia, Hanny John - 2020
potential to impact tuna fisheries. This paper theoretically models and then applies the production function approach to … fisheries. By considering area, species and fishing methods, we provide spatially and biologically relevant information for the ….e. logarithmic and quadratic) relationship between the SST and the carrying capacity of tuna fisheries …
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Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict
Gehring, Kai - 2019
We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal variation in international drug prices with spatial variation in the suitability to produce opium, we show that higher drug prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860581
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Armed Groups in Conflict : Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin - 2020
This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830355
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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 importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323876
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Extraterritorial Trade Sanctions : Theory and Application to the US-Iran-EU Conflict
Janeba, Eckhard - 2022
Under extraterritorial sanctions the sanctioning country extends its policies to trade of third countries with the sanctioned country. A prominent example is former US President Trump’s decision to leave the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multilateral agreement with Iran. The...
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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 based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and variance decomposition analyses to track the response of...
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Insuring Peace : Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, and climate change is predicted to intensify this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356486
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War and Entrepreneurship : A Synthetic Control Study of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Audretsch, David B.; Momtaz, Paul P.; Motuzenko, Hanna; … - 2023
Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind spot in entrepreneurship scholarship. As a first step to closing this gap, we offer a well-identified synthetic control study of entrepreneurial dynamics in the Russo-Ukrainian...
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Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2022
Typically, economics assumes that property rights over productive resources or goods are perfectly defined and costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In this paper, we examine how international trade regimes...
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Voodoo versus Fishing Committees: The Role of Traditional and Contemporary Institutions in Fischeries Management
Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2015
We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional …
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