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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution

Perez, Wilson - 2004

In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...

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Group bargaining and conflict

Quérou, Nicolas - 2010

protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata … which conflict will be preferred to negotiated agreements (and vice versa), and we derive welfare implications. Finally, we …

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Rent seekers in rentier states: when greed brings peace

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability …

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Networks of Military Alliances, Wars, and International Trade

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - 2014

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...

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Privatization, competition and corruption: How characteristics of bribe takers and payers after bribe payments to utilities

Clarke, George R. G.; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2002

Many recent studies have looked at the macroeconomic, cultural and institutional determinants of corruption at the cross-national level. This study complements these existing cross-country studies by focusing on firm-level evidence of microeconomic factors affecting bribes paid in a single...

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A history of violence: testing the 'culture of honor' in the US South

Grosjean, Pauline - 2010

Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the 'Culture of Honor' hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact that...

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Legal Families and Environmental Protection: Is there a Causal Relationship?

Di Vita, Giuseppe - 2007

In this paper we build up the analysis of La Porta et al. (1998), to investigate the importance of legal families in explaining the variations in pollution emissions in different countries. The main intuition behind our analysis is that the nations in which the rights of shareholders are more...

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Estimating Ricardian models with panel data

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2011

Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...

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An economic drought management index to evaluate water institutions' performance under uncertainty and climate change

Iglesias, Eva; Garrido, Alberto; Gómez, Almudena - 2001

This paper proposes a new Economic Drought Management Index (EDMI) that could assist water managers to inter-temporally manage water reservoirs. The index's main appeal is that it can be easily interpreted and that it encompasses in a single number hydrological processes, structural constraints,...

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Global Energy Demand in a Warming Climate

De Cian, Enrica; Wing, Ian Sue - 2016

This paper combines an econometric analysis of the response of energy demand to temperature and humidity exposure with future scenarios of climate change and socioeconomic development to characterize climate impacts on energy demand at different spatial scales. Globally, future climate change is...

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