inequality. Our results show significantly higher levels of income inequality in regions with a higher presence of oligarchs … across the Russian regions, we test Acemoglu's (2008) proposition that oligarchic societies experience extreme income …

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional … use a panel data set of country-level re- gional inequalities, which covers 56 countries (835 subnational regions) between … subnational regions). Conflict is measured by the incidence of civil war (UCDP/PRIO data) and a risk measure of internal conflict …

capital in order to foster economic development, albeit FDI might increase regional inequality since the many different … regions of a country usually do not receive FDI in equal measure. A conflict emerges between efficiency and redistribution … increase regional inequality in low and middle income countries, while there are no negative redistributional consequences in …

international dollars, stretching over more than 100 years. These data allow us to compare regions over time, among each other, and … geographic concentration and regional income inequality, similar to the finding of a U-shaped pattern of personal income … inequality …

the result of competition for prestige between courts and not of economic prosperity. Accordingly, the instrument is …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends … Gennaioli et al.'s (2013) cross-country data set, which covers 110 countries (1569 sub-national regions) for the year 2005, and …