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Because verdicts are typically the more costly resolution of legal disputes, most governments are interested in high settlement rates. In this paper, we use a unique dataset of 860 case records from a German trial court to explore which factors have a significant impact on the decision to settle...
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Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...
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We evaluate whether a major affirmative action program for a deprived caste in India has affected infant and child mortality rates among the target caste. The program reserves a substantial fraction of public sector jobs for those from the deprived caste and was implemented on September 8, 1993....
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We study a model of war in which the outcome of the war is uncertain from the perspective of the involved countries not because of luck on the battlefield (as in standard models) but because of their lack of information about their opponents. In our model there are two countries characterized by...
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This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distinction with the … only influences the intensity of the fight against a rebel group constituted by landless individuals. We show that conflict …
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The presence of conflict affects people's economic incentives. Some sectors of activity flourish, while others suffer …. For understanding structural problems in developing countries and designing appropriate post-conflict reconstruction … policies, it is essential to understand in what ways conflict affects the structure of the economy. We develop a simple model …
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in CCT (treated) in conflict affected regions benefit more (or less) than their counterparts in peaceful areas. To test … this, we combine longitudinal CCT data from Colombia with a conflict event dataset. This allows us to use standard … different groups and indicators of violence. We find that the CCT program had an extra benefit in conflict areas concerning …
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We develop a framework for analyzing how the distribution of income-earning ability among citizens affects an autocrat’s extractive policies and her intended risk of war. Relying on a general equilibrium model, we show that (i) autocrats can utilize the military for redistribution and (ii) are...
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litigation should ADR fail to resolve the conflict. We show that optimal ADR has to break down on-path in some cases to screen …
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experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our …
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