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The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution
MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance … personal characteristics, country and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support …. To reduce support by the same amount requires adding 14 percentage points on to the GDP growth rate. Being Muslim in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928706
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Government corruption and legislative procedures: is one chamber better than two?
Testa, Cecilia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper studies the impact of the competition between lobbies and voters on policy outcomes under alternative legislative procedures. Lobbies and citizens have opposing interests in a public policy and offer money and votes, respectively, to legislators to obtain their preferred policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928625
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Information costs, networks and intermediation in international trade
Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper presents a pairwise matching model with two-sided information asymmetry to analyse the impact of information costs on endogenous network building and matching by information intermediaries. The framework innovates by examining the role of information costs on incentives for trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745054
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Competing for contacts: network competition, trade intermediation and fragmented duopoly
Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
A two-sided, pair-wise matching model is developed to analyse the strategic interaction between two information intermediaries who compete in commission rates and network size, giving rise to a fragmented duopoly market structure. The model suggests that network competition between information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746133
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Does competition solve the hold-up problem?
Felli, Leonardo; Roberts, Kevin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
In an environment in which both buyers and sellers can undertake match specific investments, the presence of market competition for matches may solve hold-up and coordination problems generated by the absence of complete contingent contracts. In particular, this paper shows that when matching is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928710
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Firm-specific training
Felli, Leonardo; Harris, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper introduces two complementary models of firm-specific training: an informational model and a productivity-enhancement model. In both models, market provision of firm-specific training is inefficient. However, the nature of the inefficiency depends on the balance between the two key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928723
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Endogenous lobbying
Felli, Leonardo; Merlo, Antonio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
In this paper we present a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with endogenous lobbying. We find that lobbying induces policy compromise and always affects equilibrium policy outcomes. In particular, even though the policy preferences of lobbies are relatively extreme, lobbying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746186
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On the theory of ethnic conflict
Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
When considering engaging in conflict to secure control of a resource, a group needs to predict the amount of post-conflict … leakage due to infiltration by members of losing groups. We use this insight to explain why conflict often takes place along … ethnic lines, why some ethnic groups are more often in conflict than others (and some never are), and why the same groups are …
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Information acquisition, ideology and turnout: theory and evidence from Britain
Larcinese, Valentino - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The amount of political information that voters decide to acquire during an electoral campaign depends, among other things, on prior ideological beliefs about parties and/or candidates. Voters that are ex ante indifferent about the candidates attach little value to information because they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745271
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Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election
Larcinese, Valentino - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
A number of recent formal models predict a positive effect of political knowledge on turnout. Both information acquisition and turnout, however, are likely to be determined by a similar set of variables, rendering hard the identification of a causal link in empirical investigations. Available...
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