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Cash and conflict : large-scale experimental evidence from Niger
Premand, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic - 2023
Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also trigger appropriation or looting of cash or assets. The...
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War and entrepreneurship : a synthetic control study of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Audretsch, David B.; Momtaz, Paul P.; Motuzenko, Hanna; … - 2023
Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind spot in entrepreneurship scholarship. As a first step to closing this gap, we offer a well-identified synthetic control study of entrepreneurial dynamics in the Russo-Ukrainian...
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Voting on punishment systems within a heterogeneous group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - 2009
We consider a voluntary contributions game, in which players may punish others after contributions are made and observed. The productivity of contributions, as captured in the marginal-per-capita return, differs among individuals, so that there are two types: high and low productivity. Every two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882556
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Group contests with complementarities in efforts
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010
Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...
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Technological determinants of the group-size paradox
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2011
The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011374
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Self-enforcing agreements under unequal nationally determined contributions
Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2016
For a large global economy with normal goods, and an unequal world income distribution, we consider the endogenous formation and stability of an international environmental agreement (IEA) under nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Nations share green R&D efforts and enjoy R&D spillovers...
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Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and...
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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...
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Strategic implications of counter-geoengineering : clash or cooperation
Heyen, Daniel; Horton, Joshua; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018
Solar geoengineering has received increasing attention as an option to temporarily stabilize global temperatures. A key concern surrounding these technologies is that heterogeneous preferences over the optimal amount of cooling combined with low deployment costs may allow the country with the...
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …
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