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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...
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Oil and civil conflict : on and off (shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Tesei, Andrea - 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 … opposite effects can be explained by a fighting capacity mechanism, whereby the government can use offshore oil income to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603125
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Mining for peace
Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023
The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013486121
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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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The female vote and the rise of AKP in Turkey
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2015
Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using European Social Survey data, we find that education level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485535
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Machine learning indices, political institutions, and economic development
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2018
democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and … results are affected by conceptual and methodological changes in the measure of democracy. In particular, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804191
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Natural-resource rents and internal conflicts : can decentralization lift the curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - 2013 - This version: March 2013
We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...
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Spatial diffusion of economic shocks in networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018
The aggregate economic impact of any developmental project depends on its effects within the chosen administrative region as well as its economic spillovers into other regions. However, little is known about how these spillovers propagate through geographic, ethnic and road networks. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825329
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus W.; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
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