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Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - 2013

This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is identified. The theory predicts war to be more...

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The loser's long curse : electoral consequences of a class conflict

Meriläinen, Jaakko; Mitrunen, Matti - 2022

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...

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How (Not) to Pay – The Impact of Conditionality Design on the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Avoided Deforestation

Reutemann, Tim - 2016

types, i.e. different specifications when to pay and when not to pay, for PES on deforestation and agricultural production … expand extensive pasture by deforestation or intensify existing pasture. The model includes both a land and a capital … forest carbon stock lead to slow, but steady deforestation, while payments conditional on forest carbon stock …

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The Economics of Tropical Deforestation and Land Use : An Introduction to the Special Issue

Barbier, Edward B. - 2005

This paper both introduces the special issue on the economics of tropical deforestation and land use and conducts a … insights into tropical deforestation and land use, through spatial analysis of locational factors, CGE modeling of policy …

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War and natural resource exploitation

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rohner, Dominic - 2010

Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects...

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The nature of conflict

Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015

This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...

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Determinants of the duration and ending of terrorist and other non-state armed groups

Noe, Dominik - 2013 - Rev.: September 2013

This study empirically investigates the impact of group characteristics and host country conditions on the duration and the ending of terrorist organizations and rebel groups. The empirical analysis relies on data for more than 600 armed groups from the Terrorist Organization Profiles, collected...

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Diasporas and conflict

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group

Jetter, Michael - 2016

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and...

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War with outsiders makes peace inside

Münster, Johannes; Staal, Klaas - 2005

In many situations there is a potential for conflict both within and between groups. Examples include wars and civil wars and distributional conflict in multitiered organizations like federal states or big companies. This paper models such situations with a logistic technology of conflict. If...

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