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Choosing between Peace and War
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021
Although most disputes between groups of people are settled peacefully, sometimes disputes result in war. This lecture … have to contend, and on the permanence of the outcome of a potential war. The lecture also contrasts the possibilities for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231438
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149984
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Colonial New Jersey's Provincial Fiscal Structure, 1709-1775 : Spending Obligations, Revenue Sources, and Tax Burdens in War and in Peace
Grubb, Farley - 2015
The spending obligations and revenue sources of colonial New Jersey's provincial government for the years 1704 through 1775 are reconstituted using forensic accounting techniques from primary sources. Such has not been done previously for any British North American colony. These data are used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022924
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War and Relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158697
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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2021
We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We show that cooling is associated with increased conflict....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224365
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"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021
This paper develops an explanation for historical differences in the ways in which territorial disputes between sovereign states have been resolved. The main innovation in the analysis is to allow for three possible equilibria: ú an unfortified border; ú a fortified but peaceful border; and ú...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230576
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Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt : Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences
Aizenman, Joshua - 2007
This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777949
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Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
Farber, Henry S.; Gowa, Joanne - 2021
states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs … than is that of other country pairs only after World War II. Before 1914 and between the World Wars, there is no difference … between the war rates of members of democratic pairs of states and those of members of other pairs of states. We also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243439
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The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
Caselli, Francesco - 2013
We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when at least one country has natural resources; when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083090
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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the Us, Canada, Spain, and the UK
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069156