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Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices
Bazzi, Samuel; Blattman, Christopher - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 1-38
Higher national incomes are correlated with political stability. Is this relationship causal? We test three theories linking income to conflict with new data on export price shocks. Price shocks have no effect on new conflict, even large shocks in high-risk nations. Rising prices, however,...
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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025716
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Can more be less? An experimental test of the resource curse
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; McCabe, Kevin; Twieg, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Several scholars have argued that abundant natural resources can be harmful to economic performance under bad institutions and helpful when institutions are good. These arguments have either been theoretical or based on naturally-occurring variation in natural resource wealth. We test this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108283
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Oil and Conflict: What Does the Cross Country Evidence Really Show?
Cotet, Anca M.; Tsui, Kevin K. - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 49-80
This paper re-examines the effect of oil wealth on political violence. Using a unique historical panel dataset of oil discoveries, we show that simply controlling for country fixed effects removes the statistical association between the value of oil reserves and civil war onset. Other...
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Does Oil Promote or Prevent Coups?
Nordvik, Frode Martin - Centre for Applied Macro- and Petroleum economics … - 2014
A large literature investigates the relation between oil and conflict, yet no empirical study has found any link between oil and coups d’´etat. Using a new data set on oil production separated into onshore and offshore production, and covering 172 countries from 1900 to 2012, onshore oil is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185148
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Déforestation, migrations, saturation et réformes foncières: La Côte d’Ivoire entre résilience rurale et litiges fonciers
KOUADIO, Hugues; DESDOIGTS, Alain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the tropics, land transactions remain today carried out within the framework of custom and therefore constitute uncompleted sales, which it is often argued hinders investment and rural economic resilience. The Ivory Coast is no exception to the rule. Nevertheless, the absence of proper land...
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Extracción de recursos naturales, desarrollo económico e inclusión social
Sanborn, Cynthia A. - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013
¿El Perú se escapará esta vez de “la maldición de los recursos naturales”? ¿Podrá usar los abundantes recursos que genera la minería hoy, para cerrar las brechas sociales y reorientar su economía para mañana? ¿Podrá limitar los impactos ambientales y sociales negativos, que las...
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Rising food prices, food price volatility, and political unrest
Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Do food prices cause political unrest? Throughout history, riots appear to have frequently broken out as a consequence of high food prices. This paper studies the impact of food prices on political unrest using monthly data on food prices at the international level. Because food prices and...
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Don't make war, make elections: Franchise extension and violence in XIXth-century Colombia
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Vargas, Juan F. - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2013
of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and … attempting to overcome the identification problem. In 1853, Colombia established universal male suffrage. Using a simple … violence in nineteenth-century Colombia was a technology for political elites to compete for the rents from power, and that …
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Sunlight disinfects? Free media in weak democracies
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Vargas, Juan F.; Vela, Mauricio A. - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2013
popularity shock.This may result in the tainted politicians actually increasing their vote share. We provideempirical evidence … from one recent episode in the political history of Colombia, the `parapolitics' scandal featuring politicians colluding …
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