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Krieger, Tim - 2016

We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...

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Measuring ethno-linguistic affinity between nations

de Groot, Olaf J. - 2009

Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …

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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...

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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...

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Extremism Drives Out Moderation

Klose, Bettina S. - 2012

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict

Ke, Changxia - 2013

conflict and more intense fighting …

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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018

preferences for public goods and redistributive policies, and its impact on the degree of fractionalization and polarization …

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Mobility and Conflict

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2021

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

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Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2021

on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict …

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A New Approach to Solving Production-Appropriation Games with Many Heterogeneous Players

Cornes, Richard C.; Hartley, Roger; Tamura, Yuji - 2021

We set out a model of production and appropriation involving many players, who differ with respect to both resource endowments and productivities. We write down the model in a novel way that permits our analysis to avoid the proliferation of dimensions associated with the best response function...

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