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Fast-track institution building in conflict-affected countries? : insights from recent field experiments
King, Elisabeth; Samii, Cyrus - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 740-754
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489155
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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 …
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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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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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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2010
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...
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The Optimal Defense of Network Connectivity
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2016
attacker's objective is to destroy a set of nodes that disconnects the network. The conflict at each node is modeled as a …
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COVID-19 and conflict
Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Salemi, Colette - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 140 (2021), pp. 1-9
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External arms embargoes and their implications for government expenditure, democracy and internal conflict
Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 173 (2024), pp. 1-17
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072410
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Linking economic complexity, institutions, and income inequality
Hartmann, Dominik; Guevara, Miguel R.; Jara-Figueroa, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 93 (2017), pp. 75-93
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