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Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

political unions; and (c) discusses extensions and directions for further research. -- wars ; alliances ; conflict technology … ; defense ; economies of scale ; heterogeneity costs ; secessions ; size of nations … framework where populations fight over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and …

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The economic approach to political borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473678

A dynamic theory of secession

Esteban Marquillas, Joan María; Flamand, Sabine; … - 2018

This paper builds a dynamic theory of secessions, conflictual or peaceful, analyzing the forward looking interaction …

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National identity, public goods, and modern economic development

Skaperdas, Stergios; Testa, Patrick A. - 2023

Early in their formation, modern nation-states face internal conflicts that impede their economic development. This paper examines the role of national identity in helping modern states overcome such conflicts to provide public goods and grow. We develop a model in which the population can...

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The costs of organized violence : a review of the evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009

studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to internal conflicts (civil wars and other lower-level conflicts …

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War and relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...

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Conflicts with multiple battlefields

Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2010

This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed "battlefields". In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...

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Opium for the masses? : conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009

We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...

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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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Wars of conquest and independence

Hodler, Roland; Yektaş, Hadi - 2013

Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754525

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