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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493846
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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual data … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754212
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Aid effectiveness and limited enforceable conditionality
Scholl, Almuth (contributor) - 2005
This paper analyzes optimal foreign aid policy in a neoclassical framework with a conflict of interest between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003324104
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Foreign aid, poor data, and the fragility of macroeconomic inference
Roger, Lionel - 2015
The link between foreign aid and economic growth remains a controversial issue in the literature, and a large share of the disagreement could be explained by differences in the data employed. Using GDP data from three different versions of the Penn World Table and the World Development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375893
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Aid and income : another time-series perspective
Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2013
In a recent article, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Herzer, Klasen, and Martínez-Zarzoso (2012) (henceforth NDHKM) conclude that foreign aid has not had a significant effect on income, based on evidence from panel data potentially covering 131 countries over the period 1960-2006. The present study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765443
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120067
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Samaritan Agents? On the Strategic Delegation of Aid Policy
Hagen, Rune Jansen - 2009
Should a donor delegate the responsibility for allocating its aid budget to a less inequality averse agent to alleviate the consequences of the Samaritan's Dilemma it is facing? I show that when aid impact differs across recipients the optimal type of agent depends on whether or not committing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158315
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On Foreign Aid Distortions to Governance
Asongu, Simplice - 2014
The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047707
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A Signal of Altruistic Motivation for Foreign Aid : A Theoretical Model and Empirical Test
Civelli, Andrea - 2015
We develop a theoretical model showing that countercyclical transfers from a wealthy donor to a poorer recipient generate a signal of altruistic donor motivation. Using OECD foreign aid (ODA) data we find the signal present in approximately one-sixth of a large set of donor-recipient pairs. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023940