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Politics and the Stock Market: Evidence from Germany
Pierdzioch, Christian; Döpke, Jörg - 2004
We analyze the interaction of stock market movements and politics in Germany. In contrast to the empirical evidence available for the U.S., we do not find that German stock market returns tend to be higher during liberal than during conservative governments. Also in contrast to results for the...
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking: An empirical analysis
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2010
of international trafficking. We conduct a direct estimation, which highlights the ultimate impact of ethnic … fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
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A new view into political business cycles: Household expenditures in Albania
Kächelein, Holger; Imami, Drini; Lami, Endrit - 2008
Over the last decades, there has been plenty of research and articles on Political Business Cycles (PBC), aiming at analyzing and explaining the use of fiscal and monetary instruments to stimulate economic growth before elections, to impress the voters. Following other researches for PBC in...
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Elections related cycles in publicly supplied goods in Albania
Kächelein, Holger; Lami, Endrit; Imami, Drini - 2010
The phenomena of manipulation of the economy by the incumbent for electoral purpose are called Political Business Cycles (PBC), introduced by Nordhaus (1975). Using policy control economic instruments, as fiscal and monetary instruments, government may manipulate the economy to gain electoral...
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Political Power Shifts in Israel, 1977 and 1992: Unsuccessful Electoral Economics or Long Range Realignment?
Bichler, Shimshon - In: Science & Society 58 (1994) 4, pp. 415-439
Israeli politics saw major realignments in 1977 and 1992. The effect of long range economic cycles on the nature and outcome of Israeli electoral politics is examined in these two elections.
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Mining conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: Actors and repertoires of contention
Engels, Bettina - 2016
of engaging in conflict at their disposal, and thus rely on different repertoires of contention when engaging in …
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A new approach to solving production-appropriation games with many heterogeneous players
Cornes, Richard; Hartley, Roger; Tamura, Yuji - 2010
We set out a model of production and appropriation involving many players, who differ with respect to both resource endowments and productivities. We write down the model in a novel way that permits our analysis to avoid the proliferation of dimensions associated with the best response function...
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To fight or to vote: Sovereignty referendums as strategies in conflicts over self-determination
Kelle, Friederike Luise; Sienknecht, Mitja - 2020
Subnational groups employ a variety of strategies to contest governments. While democratic states offer a broader array of accessible options, autocratic regimes are more difficult to contest via conventional means. Why do subnational groups stage sovereignty referendums across regime types? Our...
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Kein Platz für Flüchtlinge? Eine empirische Untersuchung der Ausgrenzung Geflüchteter am Beispiel der Stadt Bautzen
Kurtenbach, Sebastian - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 77 (2019) 4, pp. 367-382
Der Beitrag untersucht, wie es in einer Mittelstadt Normalität wird, Geflüchtete auszugrenzen. Dazu wird das analytische Modell feindseliger Orte formuliert, welches die Ausgrenzung der als fremd markierten Gruppe erklärt. Voraussetzung ist eine Normalitätsverschiebung, wodurch sich die...
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