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National Borders, Conflict and Peace
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153423
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Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences with an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery
Deuchert, Eva - 2018
This paper proposes a difference-in-differences approach for disentangling a total treatment effect on some outcome into a direct effect as well as an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable – or mediator – within strata defined upon how the mediator reacts to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935675
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Wars of Conquest and Independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - 2021
nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315756
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War and Natural Resource Exploitation
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rohner, Dominic - 2021
Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316134
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War and Relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021
to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316348
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2021
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316223
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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317184
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Wars of Conquest and Independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - CESifo - 2013
nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668476
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War and Democracy
Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - CESifo - 1999
international conflict. In this paper, we investigate whether this motive is sufficiently important for war to persist in … Immanuel Kant (1795, 1991) always exists. The reason is that in the absence of the threat of war, leaders are unable to divert … exist with a positive war frequency. Third, if multiple equilibria exist, the perpetual peace equilibrium may be unstable in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765879
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
significant difference between second-generation families and native families. The effect of the Lebanon War is much less than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137879