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Political Military Competition, Economic Performance and Size and Composition of Government

Teng, Jimmy - 2012

This paper uses a formal model to analyze the effects of political economic competition between states on economic performance and the size and composition of the public sector. Great economies of scale in warfare and even distributions of military capability among the contestants generate...

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Chapter 21 Economics of Defense in a Globalized World

McGuire, Martin C. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 623-648). 2007

In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … defense economics has thus greatly increased, but the opportunity to exploit new insights from throughout economics grown … on the contributions expected of defense economics in a globalized world where old patterns of thinking risk obsolescence …

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Climate Change and Political (In)Stability

Balcazar, Carlos Felipe; Kennard, Amanda - 2022

As climate change accelerates, a looming question is what effects warming will have on the stability and organization of political systems. We argue that extreme weather associated with climate change can reshape societal relations by altering citizen perceptions of their political environment....

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Organising co-existence in cyberspace : content regulation and privacy compared

Engel, Christoph - 2002

The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another is almost costless. Foreign content is just a click away. Why is it that states have been able to re-install co-existence in some policy areas, and not in others? In data...

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Immigration, Integration and Terrorism : Is There a Clash of Cultures?

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2011

We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are more likely to accept using violence for...

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Economies of Scope between Military and Bureaucracy and the Constitution and Composition of the Modern State and Its Conduct in Relation to War and Peace

Teng, Jimmy - 2013

is therefore lower for autocracies, given the economies of scope between internal security and external defense …

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Agreeing to Fight : An Explanation of the Democratic Peace

Patty, John W.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2002

In this paper we extend the well known "agreeing-to-disagree" and "no-trade" results from economics and game theory to international relations. We show that two rational countries should never agree to go to war when war is inefficient and when rationality is common knowledge. We argue that this...

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An Injury to One is an Injury to All : Terrorism's Spillover Effects on Bilateral Trade

Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2017

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...

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The Socio-Economic Determinants of Terrorism : A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach

Sanso-Navarro, Marcos - 2018

This paper introduces model uncertainty into the empirical study of the determinants of terrorism at country level. This is done by adopting a Bayesian model averaging approach and accounting for the over-dispersed count data nature of terrorist attacks. Both a broad measure of terrorism and...

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Trade and Terrorism : A Disaggregated Approach

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2019

This paper constructs a model of trade consequences of terrorism, where firms in trading nations face different costs arising from domestic and transnational terrorism. Using dyadic dataset in a gravity model, we test terrorismâ€™s effects on overall trade, exports, and imports, while...

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