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Atomistic congestion tolls at concentrated airports? : seeking a unified view in the internalization debate

Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); … - 2007

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Convenient flight connections vs. airport congestion : modeling the 'Rolling Hub'

Brueckner, Jan K.; Lin, Ming Hsin - 2015

This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334230

Internalization of airport congestion : a network analysis

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2002

The likely resurgence of air traffic in the U.S. means that airport congestion is a problem that must soon be … theory says that the congestion tolls levied on the various airlines at a particular airport should generally be different …, with the tolls being inversely related to a carrier s airport flight share. Internalization of airport congestion is the …

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Workers of the world, unite! : franchise extensions and the threat of revolution in Europe, 1820-1938

Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter Sandholt - 2011

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...

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The sustainability of empire in global perspective : the role of international trade patterns

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012

European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...

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Weapons of choice

Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015

This article investigates the effect of natural resources on whether ethno-political groups choose to pursue their goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that whether or not the extraction of fossil fuels sparks...

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Social unrest in the wake of IMF structural adjustment programs

Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2013

This paper proposes an answer to the question of why social unrest sometimes occurs in the wake of an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). Under certain circumstances, partly determined by a country's comparative advantage, a nation’s elite may have an incentive to make transfers to the...

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Regime spoiler or regime pawn : the military and distributional conflict in non-democracies

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2014

I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the citizens. In the event of a revolt by the citizens, the military may choose to support the autocrat to crush the revolt or play a passive role. The autocrat determines the...

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The political economics of the Arab Spring

Hodler, Roland - 2012

The Arab Spring has led to very different outcomes across the Arab world. I present a highly stylized model of the Arab Spring to better understand these differences. In this model, dictators from the ethnic or religious majority group concede power if their country is oil-poor, but can stay in...

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Globalization and domestic conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin (contributor); … - 2005

We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a simple model of trade, in which a natural resource like oil is contested by competing groups using real resources (ʺgunsʺ). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from...

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