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Evading terror? : terror attacks and internal migration in Israel

Borstel, Johanna von; Gobien, Tom; Roth, Duncan - 2014 - Preliminary draft

This paper empirically analyses the relationship between terror incidents and internal migration in Israel. Using a newly created database of region-to-region migration flows for the years 1998-2012, the empirical model regresses the annual flow of migrants from an origin subdistrict to a...

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Does tax enforcement counteract the negative effects of terrorism? : a case study of the Basque country

Salvadori, Luca - 2015

This paper analyses the impact of terrorism on tax enforcement policies by focusing on the case of the Basque Country. The presence of externalities in tax administration attributable to the costs of terrorism is investigated by undertaking a theoretical analysis. The findings of this are tested...

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A general framework for studying contests

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2020

We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980) and Lazear & Rosen (1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on players' effort and skill, the latter being subject to symmetric uncertainty. The model is tractable, because a...

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Cultural distance and conflict-related sexual violence

Guarnieri, Eleonora; Tur-Prats, Ana - 2020

This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence in conflict. We generate a novel dyadic dataset that contains information on the ethnic identity of the actors involved in 33 ethnic civil conflicts in Africa between 1989 and...

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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021

This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...

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Comparative study beetwen Netherlands and Romania

Brătulescu, Alexandra-Marina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 370-375). 2016

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Personal selling in marketing

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How do sanctions work? : the choice between cartel formation and tacit collusion

Andres, Maximilian; Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2021

we study their effect on firms' communication in a laboratory experiment. Using machine learning to organize the chat … communication into topics, we find that firms are less likely to communicate explicitly about price fixing when sanctioning … institutions are present. At the same time, average prices are lower when communication is less explicit. A mediation analysis …

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Models of spatial competition : a critical review

Biscaia, Ricardo; Mota, Isabel - 2011

According to Duranton (2008), the main focus of spatial economics is the location choice of the economic agents. In order to explain the location and the agglomeration of agents in certain locations, one must relax the core assumptions of the neoclassic competitive framework. According to Fujita...

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How should durable goods firms combine online and mass media advertisements to promote sales?

Fujisawa, Chieko; Kasuga, Norihiro - 2021

We develop an advertising strategy for durable goods firms applying a dual time-period model while considering three-stage game in a Cournot competition. We assume that firms employ two advertising approaches; one is online advertising, which escalates consumers' willingness to purchase goods...

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