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Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
Farber, Henry S.; Gowa, Joanne - 2021
than is that of other country pairs only after World War II. Before 1914 and between the World Wars, there is no difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243439
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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences
McBride, Michael T. - 2010
Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134861
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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007
all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776946
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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model
Berman, Eli - 2010
on terrorist attacks in the Middle East: Radical religious clubs are more lethal and choose suicide terrorism more often …, when they provide benign local public goods. Our results suggest benign tactics to counter terrorism by religious radicals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759639
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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism
Abadie, Alberto - 2021
This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243972
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
explain international technology diffusion is genetic distance relative to the world technological frontier ("relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114316
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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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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 uses historical examples to illustrate how the ability to negotiate a credible peaceful settlement of a dispute between sovereign states, typically a dispute over the control of...
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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Trade and Security,I : Anarchy
Anderson, James E.; Marcouiller, Douglas - 2022
Market exchange is subject to an endogenously determined level of predation which impedes specialization and gains from trade. We construct a model in which utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in production and careers in predation. Three types of equilibria may emerge: autarky (with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158358