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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies
Bakshi, Dripto - 2015
contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The contest yields the per-period relative influence over institutions, which … partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …-monotone evolution of both conflict and distribution. Results suggest that external interventions, when effective in reducing current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016336
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316209
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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2017
systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly … polarization and test its predictive power in explaining the likelihood of civil conflict and civil war, analyzing 146 countries … educational polarization is associated with a 4.6 and 3.8 percentage point rise in the chances of civil conflict and civil war …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964049
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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2018
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917099
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Identity Conflict with Cross-Border Spillovers
Bakshi, Dripto - 2016
We model simultaneous inter and within identity-group conflict in two territories connected by cross-territorial spill … higher efficiency of a group in inter-group conflict. We find that inter-group and total conflict move together within a … territory, while within-group conflict and output move in the opposite direction. A unilateral increase in cross-border spill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999007
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Climate Policy and Development
Gersbach, Hans - 2015
We propose a development-compatible refunding system designed to mitigate climate change. Industrial countries pay an initial fee into a global fund. Each country chooses its national carbon tax. Part of the global fund is refunded to developing and industrial countries, in proportion to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039305
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777881
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development : Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077338
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Aid, Growth and Devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316311
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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development : Growth Dynamics with Two Elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2021
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318254