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Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021

negative effect through reduced openness vis-...-vis the rest of the world. We estimate the growth effects that would have …

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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Berman, Eli; Shapiro, Jacob N.; Felter, Joseph - 2021

We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to...

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A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

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 determining the incentives for war is the elasticity of demand. Our first result … identifies a novel externality that can precipitate war: price-taking firms fail to internalize the impact of their extraction on …

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The Empiricists' Insurgency

Berman, Eli - 2015

Research on insurgency has been invigorated this past decade by better data, improved methods, and the urgency of understanding active engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. This empiricists' insurgency reinforces a classic literature on the essential role of civilians while challenging older...

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National Borders, Conflict and Peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2010

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; illustrates them within an analytical framework where populations engage in conflict over borders and resources,...

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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

McBride, Michael T. - 2010

bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are embedded. The model illuminates how the choice of anti-insurgent tactics …

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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions

Ellis, Jesse A. - 2011

Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...

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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2018

How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large-scale, systematic evidence that the divide between skilled and unskilled workers worldwide is producing corresponding differences in the response of political preferences to trade shocks....

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On the Death of Distance and Borders : Evidence from the Nineteenth Century

Jacks, David S. - 2010

In this paper, we investigate time-dependent border and distance effects in the nineteenth century and document clear declines in the importance of these variables through time. What this suggests, in light of the work for the post-1950 era, is that researchers might have correctly identified...

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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets

Karlan, Dean - 2018

Two for-profit Philippine social enterprises, aiming to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by increasing microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool using randomized training content. Treated loan...

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