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Vesperoni, Alberto - 2016

During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...

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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 …

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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,...

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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority

Corneo, Giacomo - 2015

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

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Oil and Civil Conflict : On and Off (Shore)

Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2017

We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries, while they decrease this probability in...

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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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War and Relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy …

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Hanging Together or Being Hung Separately : The Strategic Power of Coalitions Where Bargaining Occurs with Incomplete Information

Konrad, Kai A. - 2013

members of the coalition group for equilibrium payoffs and welfare effects. In this analysis we also distinguishing between … coalition groups with and without side payments. Overall, coalition groups tend to perform well for the members of the coalition … group in comparison to fully decentralized negotiations, particularly if the objectives of the members of the coalition …

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The Fatter the Tail, the Fatter the Climate Agreement - Simulating the Influence of Fat Tails in Climate Change Damages on the Success of International Climate Negotiations

Dekker, Thijs; Dellink, Rob; Ketterer, Janina - 2021

International climate negotiations take place in a setting where uncertainties regarding the impacts of climate change are very large. In this paper, we examine the influence of increasing the probability and impact of large climate change damages, also known as the ‘fat tail’, on the...

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Equity as a Prerequisite for Stable Cooperation in a Public-Good Economy - The Core Revisited

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2021

distribution of cost shares that motivates some coalition of agents to separate and to block an initially given Pareto optimal … allocation which can be interpreted as the outcome of a negotiation process when all agents form a grand coalition …

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