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Consumer Boycotts : The Impact of the Iraq War on French Wine Sales in the U.S

Chavis, Larry W.; Leslie, Phillip - 2021

The French Opposition to the war in Iraq in early 2003, prompted calls for a boycott of French wine in the US. We measure the magnitude of consumers%u2019 participation in the boycott, and look at basic evidence of who participates. Conservative estimates indicate that the boycott resulted in...

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Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation : Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents

Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Rogers, Parker - 2021

We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how procurement policy affects the cost, quality, and quantity of medical innovation. Analyzing whether inventions emphasize cost and/or quality requires generating new data. We do this by first hand-coding the economic traits...

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A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. The interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of our theory. We show that a key parameter...

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The Political Economy of War Debts and Inflation

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021

This paper argues that before World War II the desire to maintain a trustworthy reputation for honoring war debts was an important factor in inducing deflationary postwar monetary policies in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The paper then asks why this policy objective did not...

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War in Iraq Versus Containment

Davis, Steven J.; Murphy, Kevin M.; Topel, Robert H. - 2021

We consider three questions related to the choice between war in Iraq and a continuation of the pre-war containment policy. First, in terms of military resources, casualties and expenditures for humanitarian assistance and reconstruction, is war more or less costly for the United States than...

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The Intergenerational Effects of the Vietnam Draft on Risky Behaviors

Deza, Monica; Mezza, Alvaro - 2023

We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Vietnam lottery draft to evaluate the intergenerational effect of …

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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

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FDI and Inequality in Vietnam : An Approach with Census Data

McLaren, John - 2016

We investigate the effects of inward FDI on income distribution and absolute living standards in Vietnam using census … data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments in each of Vietnam's provinces for each …

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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …

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The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam

Dell, Melissa - 2017

This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern … Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was the fundamental administrative unit …. Southern Vietnam was a peripheral tributary of the Khmer (Cambodian) Empire, which followed a patron-client model with weaker …

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