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Going through arbitration has many costs, both tangible and intangible. Going to arbitration may also result in the severance of a mutual relationship between a contractor and a client. It may result that the contractor would lose potential future profits by being barred from participating in...
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are commonly linked to conflict incidence. A logit model is fitted to sub-national data for Africa at grid-cell level … predictor of future conflict is current conflict incidence in the grid-cell and neighbouring cells. Additionally, the infant … conflict dynamics. Finally, the presented results are based on a relatively simple regression model commonly used in the …
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A burgeoning line of inquiry suggests that news firms adjust the substantive content of news to follow their audience’s political preferences. However, scholars currently disagree over the ability of audience political preferences to influence substantive content in traditional news sources....
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We study how negative sentiment around an industry impacts beliefs and behaviors, focusing on demands for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd and the salience of the "defund the police" movement. We assess stakeholder beliefs on the impact of protests on the stock prices of...
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This paper studies the performance of alternative prediction models for conflict. The analysis contrasts the … correlates of conflict to minimize the prediction loss function, and (2) an algorithm that chooses a set of thresholds for the … same variables, together with the number of breaches of thresholds that constitute a prediction of conflict, that minimize …
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This paper studies the performance of alternative prediction models for conflict. The analysis contrasts the … correlates of conflict to minimize the prediction loss function, and (2) an algorithm that chooses a set of thresholds for the … same variables, together with the number of breaches of thresholds that constitute a prediction of conflict, that minimize …
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While most of the literature starting with Shapley and Scarf (1974) have considered a static exchange economy with indivisibilities, this paper studies the dynamics of such an economy. We find that both the dynamics generated by competitive equilibrium and the one generated by weakly dominance...
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Civil unrest is a powerful form of collective human dynamics, which has led to major transitions of societies in modern history. The study of collective human dynamics, including collective aggression, has been the focus of much discussion in the context of modeling and identification of...
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