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Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - 2014 - Draft: February 2014

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...

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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 …, while they decrease this probability in offshore-rich countries. We use a simple model of conflict to illustrate how these …

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Technology transfer in the non-traded sector as a means to combat global warming

Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Sanyal, Tilak - 2008

The paper considers a situation where two countries - the North and the South - use a non-traded polluting input to produce the goods for final consumption. The North is more efficient in both, production and abatement processes. The study compares the effects of the transfer of abatement...

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Climate change adaptation, development, and international financial support : lessons from EU Pre-Accession and Solidarity Funds

Przyluski, Valentin; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2010

Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...

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Urban cycling tourism : how can bikes and public transport ride together for sustainability?

Crotti, Daniele; Maggi, Elena; Pantelaki, Evangelia - 2022

In the last years, sustainable travels have included bike tourists visiting cities to enjoy cultural and urban environments. Yet, when considering cycling tourists' intra-destination trips by motorized vehicles, the extent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could reduce the sustainability of...

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Do recessions occur concurrently across countries? : a multinomial logistic approach

Poon, Aubrey; Zhu, Dan - 2022

We develop a novel multinomial logistic model to detect and forecast concurrent recessions across multi-countries. The key advantage of our proposed framework is that we can detect recessions across countries using the additional informational content from the cross-country panel feature of the...

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New wine in old wineskins? : growth, terrorism and the resource curse in sub-Saharan Africa

Blomberg, Stephen Brock; Broussard, Nzinga H.; Hess, … - In: European journal of political economy 27 (2011), pp. 50-63

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Climate-induced international migration and conflicts

Cattaneo, Cristina; Bosetti, Valentina - 2016

Population movements will help people facing the impact of climate change. However, the resulting large scale displacements may also produce security risks for receiving areas. The objective of this paper is to empirically estimate if the inflows of climate-induced migrants increase the risk of...

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Third-party interest, resource value, and the likelihood of conflict

Battiston, Giacomo; Bizzarri, Matteo; Franceschin, Riccardo - 2021

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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and civil conflicts

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - In: European journal of political economy 59 (2019), pp. 33-51

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