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Chapter 22 Economics of Conflict: An Overview
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 649-709). 2007
In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …
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Social Contracts, Civil Conflicts and International Peacemaking
Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2008
commitment of donors must not be in doubt. For these conditions to be in place, conflict resolution must be in donors' interests …
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The End of Arbitration as We Know It? Arbitration under Attack
Larson, David Allen - 2011
During the past few years arbitration has been under attack. Recent judicial decisions, newly enacted and proposed legislation, and populist sentiments are important and obviously can result in significant changes. But many of the criticisms leveled at arbitration can be addressed and, most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177067
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Democratic peace : a principal-agent approach
Leonhardt, Nadine - 2013
Das Papier befasst sich modelltheoretisch mit dem empirischen Phänomen des „Demokratischen Friedens“, der Beobachtung also, dass Demokratien ihre Konflikte in der Regel nicht kriegerisch lösen. Die Grundlage meiner Analyse bildet das Modell von Fearon (1995), ein Verhandlungsspiel mit 2...
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Democratic Peace – A Principal-Agent Approach
Leonhardt, Nadine - 2014
representative within a standard war bargaining setup. I find that the specific structure of this relationship and the problems … resulting from it help overcome information asymmetries in crisis bargaining. This provides an alternative theoretic explanation …
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North-South climate change negotiations : a sequential game with asymmetric information
Caparrós Gass, Alejandro; Pereau, Jean-Christophe; … - 2003
This article determines the conditions under which the Southern countries should act together, or separately, while negotiating with the North about climate change policy and about the conditions for future Southern engagement. The paper models the international negotiations with complete and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589628
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North-South Climate Change Negotiations : A Sequential Game with Asymmetric Information
Caparros, A.; Pereau, Jean-Christophe; Tazdait, Tarik - 2003
This article determines the conditions under which the Southern countries should act together, or separately, while negotiating with the North about climate change policy and about the conditions for future Southern engagement. The paper models the international negotiations with complete and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031100
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Death as a measure of duration of conflict
Akdede, Sacit Hadi; Oğus̜, Ayla - In: Defence and peace economics 20 (2009) 6, pp. 465-476
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Death as a measure of duration of conflict
Oğus̜, Ayla (contributor); Akdede, Sacit Hadi (contributor) - 2008
This paper argues that the number of deaths in a conflict can be a measure of duration and demonstrates that there are … information gains to this approach. The well-known conflict database of International Peace Research Institute is compared with … the database of Center for Systemic Peace which includes data on the number of deaths in addition to length of conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003753817
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The Determinants of VAT Introduction : A Spatial Duration Analysis
Cizek, Pavel - 2012
The spatial survival models typically impose frailties, which characterize unobserved heterogeneity, to be spatially correlated. This specification relies highly on a predeterminate covariance structure of the errors. However, the spatial effect may not only exist in the unobserved errors, but...
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