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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts

Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020

negative (or weaker positive) consumption spillovers across communities may reduce inter-group conflict and increase aggregate … socially beneficial consequences. We also identify conditions under which their impact will be both conflict-augmenting and … feedback loops linking ethnic conflict and natural resource degradation in developing country contexts. …

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Management impact in an experimental intergroup contest : conference paper

Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2013 - Preliminary draft

The paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of managers and their incentives on the behavior of group members in intergroup contests. I find that members follow the nonbinding investment recommendations of their group manager in particular if the managers payoff does not depend on the...

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Government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with rent-seeking

Wadho, Waqar; Ayaz, Umair - 2017

We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...

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Political networks across the globe

Commander, Simon; Poupakis, Stavros - 2020

Political networks are an important feature of the political and economic landscape of countries. Despite their ubiquity and significance, information on such networks has proven hard to collect due to a pervasive lack of transparency. However, with the advent of big data and artificial...

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A Theory of Complementarity between Rent Seeking and Production

Teng, Jimmy - 2013

This paper uses a formal model to analyze the effects of rent seeking contest on production when the contestants are both rent seekers and producers and production output is an input of rent seeking effort. Great economies of scale in rent seeking and an even distribution of rent seeking...

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Rent Seeking Technology and Long Term Sustainability of Pluralistic Contest

Teng, Jimmy - 2012

This paper analyzes an infinitely repeated game of contest for resources. It studies how rent seeking technology affects the long term sustainability of pluralistic competition where there is more than one contestant to resources. If there is over dissipation of rent, pluralistic competition is...

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How organizational structure can reduce rent-seeking

Münster, Johannes; Staal, Klaas - In: Public Choice 150 (2012) 3, pp. 579-594

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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

-based predictions with data on secessionist movements, state fragility, regional autonomy, and conflict, as well as with an application …

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Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

-based predictions with data on secessionist movements, state fragility, regional autonomy, and conflict, as well as with an application …

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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

democratization, international openness, and conflict. It also reviews studies of political integration and disintegration that focus … discusses recent empirical studies that shed light on the relations among heterogeneity, conflict, and borders. This line of …

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