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Colombia: democratic but violent?
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Vargas, Juan F. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264711
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Chapter 31 Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute
Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 1017-1073). 2007
comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then at least a portion of … the costs of conflict can be measured by a nation's lost gains from trade. The greater two nations' gains from trade the … more costly is bilateral (dyadic) conflict. This notion forms the basis of Baron de Montesquieu's assertion regarding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024398
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Colombia: democratic but violent?
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Vargas, Juan F. - In: Roots of Underdevelopment : A New Economic and …, (pp. 285-316). 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438265
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Clash of brothers in a contagious world : wars to avoid diffusion
Lada, Akos - 2013
Does sharing the same religion, civilization or racial proximity lead to more peaceful relations between countries? This paper argues that cultural similarity can actually cause wars, which occur to combat diffusion. This new theory of war combines the models of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187648
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Computational and robustness reproducibility of "UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries"
Oswald, Christian; Walterskirchen, Julian - 2024
Blair et al. (2023) examine the effect of UN peacekeeping on democratization in conflict-affected countries. They use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052109
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On the escalation and de-escalation of conflict
Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771751
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Wars of conquest and independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektaş, Hadi - 2013
Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754525
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Property insecurity and conflict
Lawson-Remer, Terra - In: Journal of globalization and development 4 (2013) 1, pp. 131-160
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The impact of conflict types and location on trade
Marano, Valentina; Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Kwok, Chuck C. Y. - In: The International trade journal 27 (2013) 3, pp. 197-224
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010232687
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Artisanal mining and conflict financing in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) : coping, conflict and shadow economy actors and the impact of the "conflict minerals" campaig...
Garrett, Nicholas - 2014
Within the puzzle of why conflict persists in natural resource rich countries, and why in the critical case of the DRC … ‘conflict economy’, including ‘coping’, ‘conflict’ and ‘shadow’ economy actors, can shape the dynamics of conflict and conflict … low volume gold determine how effectively ‘conflict minerals’ trade control measures could be implemented, which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371940