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Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute

Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently...

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Transportation and Communication Infrastructure in Latin America: Lessons from Asia

Kotschwar, Barbara - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2012

In Latin America, inadequate transportation infrastructure has been identified as an increasingly important impediment to the region's further integration in global trade and a significant factor preventing countries from properly taking advantage of the multitude of regional, plurilateral, and...

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Regional Cooperation in East Asia and FTA Strategies

Drysdale, Peter - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

The need for deeper financial and trade cooperation in East Asia became clear through the experience of the East Asian … financial crisis. The imperatives of East Asian cooperation mean that the quest for East Asian influence and leadership on … role in the regional economy prompted policy initiatives such as espousal of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) aimed …

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Openness and internal conflict

Magee, Christopher S P; Massoud, Tansa George - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 1, pp. 59-72

This article examines the relationship between economic openness and internal conflict. The article first discusses different theoretical perspectives on how openness affects a country's internal stability and how internal conflict affects openness. Next, empirical estimates of the relationship...

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Enforcing cooperation among medieval merchants: The Maghribi traders revisited

Harbord, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

which bring into play, in an essential way, historical features of the Maghribi's organization which had no role in Greif … actual historical practice and explains why they may have been necessary to sustain cooperation, especially in the presence …

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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation

Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically close, but has a greater effect on cooperation when countries are … more distant. Geographic proximity increases conflict and cooperation more among non-trading dyads. …

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La distribuzione nel settore edile tra cooperazione e conflitto

Trio, Oronzo - In: MERCATI E COMPETITIVITÀ 2009/4 (2009) 4, pp. 123-145

<em>The distribution in the construction market between cooperation and conflict</em> - The paper aims to analyze the …

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A game model of ASEAN trade liberalization

Jackson, Tom - In: Open Economies Review 2 (1991) 3, pp. 237-254

This paper presents a descriptive game model of economic cooperation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations …

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Asian Economic Integration Monitor March 2013

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The Asian Economic Integration Monitor is a semiannual review of Asia’s regional economic cooperation and integration …

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Geographic Proximity, Trade, and International Conflict/Cooperation

Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 24 (2007) 1, pp. 1-24

This article examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The … conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically close, but has a greater effect on cooperation when countries are … more distant. Geographic proximity increases conflict and cooperation more among nontrading dyads. …

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