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Consumption Growth, Household Splits and Civil War
Verwimp, Philip; Bundervoet, Tom - Households in Conflict Network - 2008
consumption growth by 13%. We also find that violence afflicted on household members decreases growth whereas membership of rebel … temporarily famine-induced migration and illness decrease growth while good harvests, more split-offs and higher initial levels of … education increase it. Good harvests are found to have persistent positive effects on growth. Our results are robust for …
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Civil War
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2009
per capita incomes, slow economic growth and geographic conditions favoring insurgency are the factors most robustly … to the economic legacies of war, we frame the literature in terms of neoclassical economic growth theory. Emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131800
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Civil War: A Review of 50 Years of Research
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - 2009
per capita incomes, slow economic growth and geographic conditions favoring insurgency are the factors most robustly … to the economic legacies of war, we frame the literature in terms of neoclassical economic growth theory. Emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992768
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Brauchen wir eine neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft?
Blum, Reinhard - 2002
Wer nur an die Marktwirtschaft glaubt, ist abergläubisch, stellte der katholische Theologe Hans Küng vor einigen Jahren in einem Beitrag „Ökonomie und Theologie“ für Studenten der Wirtschaftswissenschaften fest. Soziale Marktwirtschaft, so ließe sich fortfahren, schützt vor diesem...
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Economic Globalisation, Democracy and Income in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Cointegration Analysis
Sakyi, Daniel - 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by low-income levels for decades. This paper analyses the impact of economic globalisation and democracy on income in sub-Saharan Africa using panel cointegration techniques. The paper considers a composite indicator for economic globalisation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305611
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Hayek 2.0: Grundlinien einer naturalistischen Theorie wirtschaftlicher Ordnungen
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2011
Combining different new approaches to human behavior in neuroeconomics, the cognitive sciences and institutional economics, this paper sketches the fundamentals of a naturalistic theory of economic order. In this endeavour, the argument follows the track laid down by Hayek's comprehensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307558
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? The economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - 2011
While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307605
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Does High Speed Rail services influence tourists' choice? Some concerns from Paris and Roma and other linked cities
Delaplace, Marie; Pagliara, Francesca; Perrin, Julie; … - 2013
Improvement of transportation has contributed to tourism expansion. Indeed tourism implies mobility and mobility needs transportation. Furthermore, transportation links the various destinations and people, goods, and services. The link between HSR services and tourism has been investigated only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397274
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Stone Age Equilibrium
Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2009
We introduce the notion of a stone age equilibrium to study societies in which property rights are absent, bilateral exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the importance of free disposal of goods which allows for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325690
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Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms
Burdín, Gabriel - 2013
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329014