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Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - 2021

Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...

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Overcoming History through International Organizations – Historical Roots of EU Support and Euroscepticism

Gehring, Kai - 2019

There is little causal evidence about deep-rooted sources of support for shifting power from nation-states to international organizations. Focusing on the European Union, this paper develops the hypothesis that citizens appreciate the role of international organizations in constraining member...

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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2017

(equivalent to over 93 percent of the world population) from 1950 to 2014. Our results produce strong evidence for a positive …

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International Commodity Prices and Civil War Outbreak : New Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond

Ciccone, Antonio - 2018

A new dataset by Bazzi and Blattman (2014) allows examining the effects of international commodity prices on the risk of civil war outbreak with more comprehensive data. I find that international commodity price downturns sparked civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another finding with the new...

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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups : Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict

Jetter, Michael - 2018

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable,...

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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 the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects...

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The Costs of Organized Violence : A Review of the Evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2021

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to...

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When the State Mirrors the Family : The Design of Pension Systems

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2021

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....

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The International Monetary Fund : 70 Years of Reinvention

Reinhart, Carmen - 2016

A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a “demand driven” theory of institutional change …

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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach

Lindner, Ines - 2016

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …

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