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Insuring peace : index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict

Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023

We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, and climate change is predicted to intensify this...

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Sea surface temperature and tuna catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean under climate change

Mediodia, Hanny John; Kahui, Viktoria; Noy, Ilan - 2020

potential to impact tuna fisheries. This paper theoretically models and then applies the production function approach to … fisheries. By considering area, species and fishing methods, we provide spatially and biologically relevant information for the ….e. logarithmic and quadratic) relationship between the SST and the carrying capacity of tuna fisheries. …

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Voodoo versus fishing committees : the role of traditional and contemporary institutions in fischeries management

Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2015

We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional …

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The costs of organized violence : a review of the evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to...

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International trade and transnational insecurity : how comparative advantage and power are jointly determined

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2009

We augment the canonical neoclassical model of trade to allow for interstate disputes over land, oil, water, or other resources. The costs of such disputes in terms of arming depend on the trade regime in place. Under either autarky or free trade, the larger country (in terms of factor...

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Third-party intervention in conflicts and the indirect samaritan's dilemma

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009

I study a two-period model of conflict with two combatants and a third party who is an ally of one of the combatants. The third party is fully informed about the type of her ally but not about the type of her ally's enemy. There is a signaling game between the third party and her ally's enemy...

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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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National borders, conflict and peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...

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Europe's great depression : coordination failure after the first World War

Wolf, Nikolaus - 2010

In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could not exploit her vast economic potential after 1918, because the war had not yet come to an end - indeed it did not end before 1945. Both, domestic and international...

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Brothers in arms : an experiment on the alliance puzzle

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010

Our experimental analysis of alliances in conflicts leads to three main findings. First, even in the absence of repeated interaction, direct contact or communication, free-riding among alliance members is far less pronounced than what would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this...

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