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The Efficiency of Direct Public Involvement in Environmental Policymaking: An Experimental Test

Bruce, Christopher; Clark, Jeremy - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2008

In one of the most ambitious forms of environmental decision-making, representatives of interested parties – environmentalists, developers, farmers, loggers, miners, etc. - are charged with the responsibility of developing a set of public policies that is acceptable to all of them. Although...

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The Effect of Historical Entitlements in Cooperative Bargaining Over Evironment Policy: An Experimental Test

Bruce, Christopher; Clark, Jeremy - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2008

Collaborative policy making has been an increasingly popular method of solving use conflicts on public lands. Representatives of interested groups are authorized to negotiate land use policy in the shadow of a government imposed backstop policy. This process can be modeled using cooperative game...

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Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars

Valsecchi, Michele - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We develop a conflict model linking dissipation to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999) to include a mixed public-private good. We analyze how the level of dissipation changes as the...

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Death as a measure of duration of conflict

Oğuş, Ayla; Akdede, Sacit Hadi - 2008

This paper argues that the number of deaths in a conflict can be a measure of duration and demonstrates that there are information gains to this approach. The well-known conflict database of International Peace Research Institute is compared with the database of Center for Systemic Peace which...

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Defense Spending and Economic Growth:A Theoretical Manifestation for Empirical Studies

Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2012

Defense literature is still in need of a theoretical framework in the neoclassical sense, in regard to empirical … research on the relationship between defense spending and economic growth. In this respect, Dunne, Smith and Willenbockel (2005 …. First, we develop the true growth-defense model, based on Dunne, Smith and Willenbockel (2005). Second, we overcome the …

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The Effect of Entitlements and Equality on Cooperative Bargaining with Private, Unverifiable Information

Bruce, Christopher; Clark, Jeremy - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2010

In many bargaining situations a third party is authorized to impose a backstop position on the bargainers. Prominent examples include governments who use collaborative policymaking between stakeholders to set public policy, but also compulsory arbitration in labour negotiations. Axiomatic models...

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Malthus in Rwanda? Scarcity, Survival and Causes of the Genocide

Yanagizawa, David - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

This paper does two things. First, it develops a game theoretical model over population groups that optimize their survival under resource scarce conditions. The model includes two rather obvious, but in the theoretical literature neglected, strategies - survival by migration and, once a...

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Analyzing Economic Market Interactions as Conflicts: New Concepts to Assess Market-Based Policy Instruments

Mason, Simon A.; Muller, Adrian - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

Complementing market-based policy instruments with conflict analysis approaches provides a wider understanding of market situations and allows to identify minimal requirements regarding needs, power and conflict dynamics. If these are not met, a market cannot be successfully introduced or a...

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Are Remittances Conflict-Abating in Recipient Countries?

Hassan, Gazi Mainul; Faria, Joao Ricardo - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2013

This paper represents the first attempt to formalise the relationship between remittances inflow and social violence by developing a model which predicts that migrants’ remittances would lead to the reduction of social conflict in the recipient economy under the condition that remittances...

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Measurement Error and the Effect of Inequality on Experienced versus Reported Crime

Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2006

This paper analyzes measurement errors in crime data to see how they impact econometric estimates, particularly of the key relationship between inequality and crime. Criminal victimization surveys of 140,000 respondents in 37 industrial, transition and developing countries are used. Comparing...

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