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Stable Alliance Formation in Distributional Conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R. - EconWPA - 2003
advantage in the conflict or that the joint production process exhibits increasing returns. Nor is there any presumption that …, the formation of alliances tends to reduce the severity of the conflict over the contestable resource. Furthermore …, despite the internal conflict that arises among the winning alliance’s members over the distribution of their joint product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126004
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Blood and Ink! The Common-Interest-Game Between Terrorists and the Media
Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominic - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006
It has often been pointed out in the literature that a symbiotic relationship exists between terrorist groups and the media. As yet, however, no formal model has been built based on this issue and only very little empirical research has been done in this field. The present contribution builds a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673518
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Delay in Contests
Bester, Helmut; Konrad, Kai A. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Why is there delay in contests? In this Paper we follow and extend the line of reasoning of Carl von Clausewitz to explain delay. For a given contest technology, delay may occur if there is an asymmetry between defense and attack, if the expected change in relative strengths is moderate, and if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504736
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Blood and Ink! The Common-Interest-GameBetween Terrorists and the Media
Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominik - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
It has often been pointed out in the literature that a symbiotic relationship exists between terrorist groups and the media. As yet, however, no formal model has been built based on this issue and only very little empirical research has been done in this field. The present contribution builds a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463531
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Growth and Violence: Argument for a Per Capita Measure of Civil War
Mueller, Hannes - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
a debate on the right model can help distinguish between competing theories in the conflict literature. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851411
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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2014
We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that this threat is rendered less e_ective by distance from the seat of political power. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934658
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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2014
We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that this threat is rendered less e_ective by distance from the seat of political power. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934664
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Forced displacement in Colombia: Magnitude and causes
Ibáñez, Ana María - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 4 (2009) 1, pp. 48-54
The article describes the magnitude, geographical extent, and causes of forced populationdisplacements in Colombia. Forced migration in Colombia is a war strategy adopted by armed groups to strengthen territorial strongholds, weaken civilian support to the enemy, seize valuable lands, and...
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Forced displacement in Colombia: magnitude and causes.
Ibáñez, Ana María - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 4 (2009) 1, pp. 48-54
The article describes the magnitude, geographical extent, and causes of forced populationdisplacements in Colombia. Forced migration in Colombia is a war strategy adopted by armed groups to strengthen territorial strongholds, weaken civilian support to the enemy, seize valuable lands, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749227
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A Tentative Model of Conflict, Appropriation and Production in a two-sector Economy
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper presents a model of conflict in an economy characterized by two sectors. In a first sector labelled as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621996