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National Borders, Conflict and Peace
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
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/10012463089
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Choosing Between Peace and War
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003
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/10012468514
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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...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463555
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"Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003
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/10012469063
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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
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/10012455647
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When to Appease and When to Punish : Hitler, Putin, and Hamas
Levine, David K.; Ohanian, Lee E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Much has been written about deterrence, the process of committing to punish an adversary to prevent an attack. But in sufficiently rich environments where attacks evolve over time, formulating a strategy involves not only deterrence but also appeasement, the less costly process of not responding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512134
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Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
Farber, Henry S. - 1995
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/10012473888
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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482082
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The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780 : The Problem of Geographic Balance
Grubb, Farley - 2008
Resources to fight the War for Independence from Great Britain (1775-1783) were to be provided to the U.S. Congress by …, largely flowed to where the theater of war was located. Thus a geographic imbalance in revenue and spending arose. Because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464382