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Oil Revenues, Ethnic Fragmentation and Political Transition of Authoritarian Regimes

Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2013

Natural resources are generally associated to negative effects on the political environment of a country. This paper explores the impact that oil revenues have on the establishment of a given political system. Based on previous literature, a political economy perspective is employed. A simple...

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Religious Organizations

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - 2010

beliefs and participation, the relation between the size of the religion and the intensity of its members’ beliefs, religious …

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An Exploration of the Link between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk

Hallegatte, S. - 2013

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters in a normative analytical framework, with an illustration on hurricane flood risks in New Orleans. It concludes that, where capital accumulates through increased density of...

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Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy : A Tale of Two Elites

Akerman, Anders - 2013

economy with imperfect political institutions. In a capital-scarce economy, an autocrat catering to the needs of landowners … chooses to shelter the economy from trade. The resulting trade regime interacts with economic institutions, and with policies … on capital mobility, to govern capital accumulation. A landed autocrat neglects to improve institutions and blocks …

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Energy-Based Economic Development : Prioritizing Opportunities for Developing Countries

Carley, Sanya; Desai, Sameeksha; Bazilian, Morgan; … - 2013

Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming...

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Institutions and the Environment : Existing Evidence and Future Directions

Dasgupta, Shouro - 2016

institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the … relationship between institutions and various response variables related to environmental performance and environmental policy have …

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Multilateral Bargaining in Networks : On the Prevalence of Inefficiencies

Lee, Joosung - 2015

We introduce a noncooperative multilateral bargaining model for a network-restricted environment, in which players can communicate only with their neighbors. Each player strategically chooses the bargaining partners among the neighbors to buy out their communication links with upfront transfers....

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River Sharing and Water Trade

Ansink, Erik; Gengenbach, Michael; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2012

We analyze river sharing games in which a set of agents located along a river shares the available water. Using coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite...

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The Grand Experiment of Communism : Discovering the Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency

Farvaque, Etienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

conflict through the interaction between leaders with economic power and followers with ideological determination. The …

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Citizens’ Protests : causes and consequences. A Research on Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs by Bueno De Mesquita

Gilli, Mario; Giorgini, Filippo - 2022

Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens’ protests, determining cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests and allowing...

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