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State Control and the Effects of Foreign Relations on Bilateral Trade
Davis, Christina - 2016
Can governments still use trade to reward and punish partner countries? While WTO rules and the pressures of globalization restrict states' capacity to manipulate trade policies, politicization of trade is likely to occur where governments intervene in markets. We examine state ownership of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978766
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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017
The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118027
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On the Articulation of Witchcraft and Modes of Production among the Nupe, Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The political economy of occult belief in Africa can highlight hidden social and political conflict in times of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622125
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Partidos políticos y financiamiento político
Mauro, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
conflict is frequent because this is a more efficient way to put an issue in public agenda instead of building a political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836708
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Social conflict, growth and factor shares
Tsoukis, Christopher; Tournemaine, Frederic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Standard growth theory is based on atomistic agents with no strategic interactions among them. In contrast, we model growth as resulting from a one-off, strategic game between workers and owners of capital (capitalists) on factor shares, in an otherwise standard AK growth model. The resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564509
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The Evolution of Conflict and Effectiveness of Aid
Dimico, Arcangelo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
effectiveness of aid on conflict. Using proxies for the evolution of conflict we show that over the course of the conflict aid … aid to countries experiencing a conflict. We also show that the evolution of conflict significantly affects economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107489
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Countervailing Conflict Interventions as a (Potentially Preventable) Prisoner’s Dilemma Outcome
Dulal, Rajendra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Scholars and policymakers have devoted much attention to issues of third party intervention in conflict. The present … paper considers a conflict that draws two countervailing outside interveners. As in the realist perspective, the outside … escalatory conflict intervention. The paper also studies conditions required for the United Nations, or some such supra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109775
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The impact of conflict induced exile on entitlement of food: Evidence from rural Liberia
Kibriya, Shahriar; Xu, Zhicheng; Ghimire, Narishwar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
data randomized on levels of conflict and propensity of migration from 312 rural households in 22 Liberian villages from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110855
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Why might climate change not cause conflict? an agent-based computational response
Hassani Mahmooei, Behrooz; Parris, Brett - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we first briefly review the recent literature on climate change, resource scarcity and conflict. This is … then followed by introducing an agent based computational model based on the theory of production and conflict which is …, differentiates between conflict subjects, takes into account bounded rationality, non-linearity and feedback loops, and is enriched …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110860
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Democratization and civil war
Armey, Laura E.; McNab, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We examine the impact of civil war on democratization. Using a theoretical bargaining model, we hypothesize that prolonged violence, war termination, the presence of natural resources, and international intervention influence democratization. We test these hypotheses using an unbalanced panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111965