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?). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from imperfect property-rights enforcement. When comparing autarky with …We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a … conflict. We find that importers of the contested resource gain unambiguously. By contrast, countries exporting the contested …
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. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict, have strong impact on subsequent … where government law enforcement is weak. …
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. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict, have strong impact on subsequent … where government law enforcement is weak. …
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Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
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We investigate the long-term relationship between conflict-related migration and individual socioeconomic inequality …. Looking at the post-conflict environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a former Yugoslav state most heavily impacted by the … histories. We find that individuals with greater exposure to conflict had systematically worse educational performance and lower …
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We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased trafficking profits of Mexican cartels, resulting in violent competition among them. We test this hypothesis by comparing changes in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction...
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We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased trafficking profits of Mexican cartels, resulting in violent competition among them. We test this hypothesis by comparing changes in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction...
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One possible solution to mitigate the negative influences of conflict which has been proposed in the literature is to … increasing an individual's social capital will lead her to reduce her conflict effort, whereas increasing her human capital can … induce her to increase her conflict effort. We then analyze which conditions need to be present to induce the individuals to …
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I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...
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seen as a means to reduce the inefficiencies of markets in an environment where the enforcement of property rights is …
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