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Li, Peter M. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 5 (2010) 1, pp. 12-19

The ability of military alliances to deter depends on their credibility: the degree to which others believe that allies … capability of resulting alliances and, consequently, decreases the amount of militarized conflict. In order to measure the …

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National Borders, Conflict and Peace

Spolaore, Enrico - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2009

framework where populations fight over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and …

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The Alliances of European Retailers and Their Effects in the Field of Marketing and Supply Chain

Balan, Carmen - In: Romanian Economic Journal 10 (2007) 25bis, pp. 29-48

, marketing strategies, prices and alliances. Among the strategies devised by the major retail players of Europe range the … international alliances in the supply chain, under the form of buying groups. The paper aims to bring to light some of the major …

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Distance rationalizability of scoring rules

Can B. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013

Collective decision making problems can be seen as finding an outcome that is closest to a concept of consensus. 1 introduced Closeness to Unanimity Procedure as a first example to this approach and showed that the Borda rule is the closest to unanimity under swap distance a.k.a the 2 distance....

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Claim games for estate division problems

Vermeulen A.J.; Schröder M.J.W.; Peters H.J.M. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013

This paper considers the estate division problem from a non-cooperative perspective. The integer claim game initiated by ONeill 1982 and extended by Atlamaz et al. 2011 is generalized by considering different sharing rules to divide every interval among the claimants. For problems with an estate...

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Insurgents in motion: Counterinsurgency and insurgency relocation in Iraq

Wong P-H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

Recent studies in general are positive regarding the effectiveness of US counterinsurgency programs in Iraq. The right mix of coercion, ethnic strategy, and public goods provision, it is argued, makes Iraqis less likely to rebel against the US army and the Iraqi government, thus reducing...

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Networks of Military Alliances, Wars, and International Trade

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries …, we show that there do not exist any networks that are stable against the addition and deletion of alliances. We then show … that economic benefits from international trade can provide incentives to form alliances in ways that restore stability and …

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Friends and Enemies: A Model of Signed Network Formation

Hiller, Timo - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2012

I propose a game of signed network formation, where agents make friends to coerce payoffs from enemies with fewer friends. The model accounts for the interplay between friendship and enmity. Nash equilibrium configurations are such that, either everyone is friends with everyone, or agents can be...

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National Borders, Conflict and Peace

Spolaore, Enrico - CESifo - 2009

framework where populations fight over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and …

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Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa

König, Michael; Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects … complex network of informal alliances and rivalries. We estimate the fighting externalities, and use these to infer the extent …

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