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Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources
Barrett, Scott - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000148290
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Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict?
Easterly, William - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001538806
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Cycles of Distrust : An Economic Model
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103053
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The Paradox of Civilization : Pre-Institutional Sources of Security and Prosperity
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2015
conflict when defense capability is fixed, but may allow for security and prosperity when defense capability is endogenous … of conflict and stagnation. We illustrate the model by analyzing the rise of civilization in Sumeria and Egypt, the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009442
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Inflation-Output Tradeoff as Equilibrium Outcome of Globalization
Binyamini, Alon; Razin, Assaf - 2021
The paper provides an integrated analysis of globalization effects on the inflation-output tradeoff and monetary policy in the New-Keynesian framework. The prediction of the analysis is threefold. First, labor, goods, and capital mobility flatten the Phillips curve, the tradeoff between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233051
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On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict
Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - 2021
We present a theory of ethnic conflict in which coalitions formed along ethnic lines compete for the economy%u2019s … coalition can defect to the winners at low cost, and this rules out conflict as an equilibrium outcome. We derive a number of … implications of the model relating social, political, and economic indicators such as the incidence of conflict, the distance among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246674
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The seasonality of conflict
Guardado, Jenny; Pennings, Steven - 2020
This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper … benefits are unobserved. In contrast, many other shocks in the conflict literature are persistent and unanticipated, thus also … estimates of the effect of harvest shocks on conflict intensity in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan using subnational variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297223
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Dynamic Savings Choices with Disagreements
Cao, Dan - 2016
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.1/MathJax.js?config=AM_HTMLorMML-full"></script>We study a flexible dynamic savings game in continuous time, where decision makers rotate in and out of power. These agents value spending more highly while in power creating a time-inconsistency problem. We provide a sharp characterization of Markov equilibria. Our analysis proceeds by...
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When is foreign aid policy credible? : Aid dependence and conditionality
Svensson, Jakob - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000959283
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Can donor coordination solve the aid proliferation problem?
Rahman, Aminur; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950628