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Sources extérieures des menaces terroristes en Afrique de l'Ouest

Kohnert, Dirk - 2022

's political elite. There are outside sources fomenting violent conflict by close cooperation between transnational crime and … and social media to create fear and spread their violent ideologies. The interactions between crime and terror in West … interactions entre le crime et le terrorisme en Afrique de l'Ouest se poursuivront dans un avenir prévisible. Il pourrait même …

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Outside sources of terrorist threats in West Africa

Kohnert, Dirk - 2022

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Democratisation via elections in an African 'narco state'? The case of Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

Recent development cooperation with Guinea-Bissau, focusing on good governance, statebuilding and conflict prevention, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures. The portrayal of Guinea- Bissau as a failed...

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Determinants of tuberculosis incidence in East Asia and Pacific: A panel regression analysis

Alipio, Mark - 2020

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest communicable disease. To circumvent surges of TB cases, several studies have been carried out analyzing the determinants of TB incidence and recommended policy measures based on the significant indicators. Although the determinants were...

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Emotions and Economic Preference

Todorova, Tamara; Ramachandran, Bharath - 2005

We wish to examine critically the viewpoint that: a) economists take too narrow a view of rationality and do not recognize the role of emotions as a component of rationality and b) do not address the question of whether preferences are rational or not, and instead take them as just given. We...

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The Dollar Auction Game: A laboratory comparison between Individuals and Groups

Morone, Andrea; Nuzzo, Simone; Caferra, Rocco - 2017

The aim of this paper is to analyze bidders’ behavior, comparing individuals and groups’ decisions within the dollar auction framework. This game induces subjects to fall prey into the paradigm of escalation, which is driven by agents’ commitment to higher and higher bids. Whenever each...

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Experimental Evidence on Tax Salience and Tax Incidence

Morone, Andrea; Nemore, Francesco; Nuzzo, Simone - 2016

While a basic theoretical principle in public economics assumes that individuals' behaviour is fully-optimizer with respect to the introduction of a tax, an increasing body of research is presenting evidence that agents decision making is often affected by non-negligible cognitive biases, which...

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Do Markets (Institutions) Drive Out Lemmings or Vice Versa?

Morone, Andrea; Nuzzo, Simone - 2016

We investigate, by mean of a lab experiment, a market inspired by two strands of literature on one hand we have herd behaviour in non-market situations, and on the other hand aggregation of private information in markets. The former suggests that socially undesirable herd behaviour may result...

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Preferences over social risk: does (group) size matter?

Morone, Andrea; Temerario, Tiziana - 2016

In this paper, we first replicated Harrison et al. (2012). Then, we studied if the group’s size has an impact on group’s risk aversion. In line with Harrison et al. (2012), our results confirm that no significant differences occur between individuals and groups risk aversion in three-person...

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Are dyads conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment

Morone, Andrea; Temerario, Tiziana - 2016

We analysed dyads strategies in one-shot public goods game. By means of a laboratory experiment, using a variant of the strategy-method, we found that more than one third of the dyads are conditional cooperators, whereas 18% can be categorised as free riders.

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