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Suicide attacks and religious cleavages
Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2015
investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475337
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Institutions, trade and development : a quantitative analysis
Beverelli, Cosimo; Keck, Alexander; Larch, Mario; … - 2018
We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We … are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural … gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the prominent issue of endogenous institutions. The empirical analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800710
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Policies against human trafficking : the role of religion and political institutions
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using … empirical findings regarding the association between religion, political institutions, and human development. … influence of religion on the overall 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index is driven by protection and prevention policies. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754602
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Human capital and national institutional quality : are TIMSS, PISA, and national average IQ robust predictors?
Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354080
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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857142
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Does a change of government influence compliance with international agreements? : empirical evidence for the NATO two percent target
Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966866
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Information transmission and ownership consolidation in aid programs
Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013
This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors ́choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a "delegation-scheme." Conversely, project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199746
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Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements : should action in the EU and US be postponed?
Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2008
This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779483
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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our empirical estimates, which include religiosity, political institutions, and other explanatory variables, confirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515355
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Democracy with group identity
Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015 - 25 March-2015 final
Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role of group decisiveness into voting incentives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498619