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Democracy and international conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other …
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The determinants of trade costs : a random coefficients approach
Egger, Peter; Průša, Jan - 2014
This paper assesses whether the sensitivity of bilateral trade volumes to various trade cost factors is constant or varies across countries. It utilizes a random coeffcients model and analyses a cross-sectional sample of bilateral trade data for 96 countries in 2005. We expect the elasticity of...
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Is there a return-risk link in education?
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2001
Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to test the positive relationship between return to education and the risk involved in this...
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Is Wine a Premier CRU Investment?
Lucey, Brian M. - 2011
We investigate the case for Bordeaux and Rhone wine as an investment. The raw data analysed comprises of approx. 335,000 observations of wine sales prices and is analysed using the repeat sales regression method. General Red Bordeaux and Rhone wine indices are constructed for the period January...
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The impact of bilateral investment treaties on FDI inflows into India : some empirical results
Singh, Jaivir; Shreeti, Vatsala; Urdhwareshe, Parnil - 2020
Commencing in the 1990s, India signed a number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), however, after a spate of adverse investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), India has recently denounced all its erstwhile investment treaties. New investment treaties now need to be negotiated on the basis...
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Self-enforcing peace agreements that preserve the status quo
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - In: Games and economic behavior 130 (2021), pp. 148-178
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Inequality and conflict : burning resources to support peace
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - In: Economics letters 197 (2020), pp. 1-4
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Self-enforcing peace agreements that preserve the status quo
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2021
quo without arming (or unarmed peace) and open conflict (or war) that is possibly destructive. With a focus on outcomes … that are immune to both unilateral deviations and coalitional deviations, we find that, depending on war’s destructive …, but only when the configuration of parameters describing the degree of output security and the degree of war's destruction …
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Three is a crowd : using reciprocity to explain involvement in ongoing disputes
Rudkevich, Gennady - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 27 (2021) 3, pp. 341-368
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Chapter 2 Defense economics and international security
McGuire, Martin C. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 1, (pp. 13-43). 1995
Defense economics derives from and is embedded in the multi-dimensional array of issues each country must address when providing for its national security. Applying economic concepts and methods, it attempts to evaluate this great diversity of security related questions, and to understand how...
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