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Exploiting Common Resources with Capital-Intensive Technologies: The Role of External Forces

Engel, Stefanie; Lopez, Ramon - 2004

bargaining model with endogenous inside and outside options to analyze the interactions between local communities having at least … particular, improvements in the community's bargaining power vis-a-vis the firm are likely to increase resource extraction and …

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The increasingly mixed proportional hazard model: An application to socioeconomic status, health shocks, and mortality

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2011

We introduce a duration model that allows for unobserved cumulative individual-specific shocks, which are likely to be important in explaining variations in duration outcomes, such as length of life and time spent unemployed. The model is also a useful tool in situations where researchers...

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The Economics of Nuclear Power

Horst, Ronald L - 2006

We extend economic analysis of the nuclear power industry by developing and employing three tools. They are 1) compilation and unification of operating and accounting data sets for plants and sites, 2) an abstract industry model with major economic agents and features, and 3) a model of nuclear...

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Lessons for the aggregate labor market from employment and turnover patterns across workers

Mustre-del-R?o, Jos? (1983; Bils, Mark

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2011.

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Las reformas de la Ley concursal durante la Gran Recesión

García-Posada, Miguel; Vegas Sánchez, Raquel - 2016

Tradicionalmente, los concursos de acreedores en España han sido procedimientos largos y costosos, que casi siempre terminaban en la liquidación de la empresa concursada (95 %). Estas disfuncionalidades quedaron en evidencia con el fuerte aumento de los concursos de acreedores durante la...

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Determinants of the Speed of Adoption of Soil Fertility-Enhancing Technologies in Western Kenya

Odendo, Martins; Obare, Gideon A.; Salasya, Beatrice - 2010

Most adoption studies have employed cross-sectional data in a static discrete choice modellingframework to analyze why some farmers adopt at a certain point in time. The static approachdoes not consider the dynamic environment in which the adoption decision is made and thusdoes not incorporate...

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Oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria

Oyefusi, Aderoju - 2007

This paper examines oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria focusing on the economic dynamics of resource …-induced conflicts. It identifies two dimensions to oil-related civil conflict in the country. The first is the violent rent … concludes with a discussion of some measures that may be used to break the "conflict trap" and overcome the corrupting influence …

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The cost of failing states and the limits to sovereignty

Chauvet, Lisa; Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - 2007

In this paper, we estimate the costs of state failure, both for the failing state itself and for its neighbours. In our analysis, the cost of failure arises from two distinct sources: organized violence due to the incapacity of the state to ensure its own citizens’ security and low quality of...

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The Dynamics of Continuing Conflict

Reuveny, Rafael; Maxwell, John W. - 2000

dynamic setting, and illustrate it by modeling continuous conflict over renewable natural resources between two rival groups …) lead to conflict, and predict more conflict in the future. However, instances of conflict over resources in LDCs, absent … resource scarcity, also exist. Thus, it appears that the role of renewable resources in conflict may be greater than simply a …

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Reciprocity as a key stabilizing norm of interpersonal marketing relationships: scale development and validation

Pervan, Simon J; Bove, Liliana L; Johnson, Lester W - 2009

, commitment, satisfaction, self-esteem and reduced conflict. …

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