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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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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - CESifo - 2013
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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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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Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - CESifo - 2011
institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serf labor, has a negative effect on …
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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth
Dennison, Tracy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - CESifo - 2013
This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A metastudy of the historical demography literature shows that the EMP did not prevail throughout Europe, its three key components did not always coincide, and its more extreme...
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - CESifo - 2011
countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872213
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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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