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Side-Payments and the Costs of Conflict
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2015
Conflict and competition often impose costs on both winners and losers, and conflicting parties may prefer to resolve the dispute before it occurs. The equilibrium of a conflict game with side-payments predicts that with binding offers, proposers make and responders accept side-payments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037242
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Good governance obligations in international economic law : a comparative analysis of trade and investment
Mitchell, Andrew D.; Sheargold, Elizabeth; Voon, Tania - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 17 (2016) 1, pp. 7-46
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724142
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We Can Be Heroes Trust and Resilience in Corrupted Economic Environments
Becchetti, Leonardo - 2018
in presence of corruption, matched by a significant effect of excess reciprocity from the trustee. Both the trustor and … apparently paradoxical excess reciprocity effect is consistent with the cultural role of heroes in history where examples of … commendable giving were used to stimulate emulation of the ordinary people. Our results suggest that the excess reciprocity …
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Your Place in the World - Relative Income and Global Inequality
Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021
There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231987
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Your place in the world relative income and global inequality
Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021
There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507321
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Your Place in the World : The Demand for National and Global Redistribution
Fehr, Dietmar - 2020
Some of today's most heated policy debates about Brexit, trade wars, climate change abatement, and migration involve redistribution of resources within a given country (national redistribution) and between countries (global redistribution). Nevertheless, theories and evidence on preferences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846318
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The political economy of international environmental agreements: A survey
Wangler, Leo; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; Weikard, … - 2011
This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...
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The political economy of international environmental agreements : a survey
Wangler, Leo; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; Weikard, … - 2011
This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271149
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Price Controls and Electoral Cycles
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2006
This paper studies the interactions between electoral considerations and the imposition of price controls by opportunistic policymakers. The analysis shows that a policy cycle emerges in which price controls are imposed in periods leading to the election, and removed immediately afterwards. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781644
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Terrorism and the State
Konrad, Kai A. - 2011
This paper considers terrorism as an extortion activity. It uses tools from the theory of extortion and from conflict theory to describe how terrorism works, why terrorism is a persistent phenomenon, why terrorism is a violent phenomenon, and how retaliation affects the outcome. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178434