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Lógicas de argumentación e instituciones internacionales

Fernando, Estrada - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article presents the basics of argumentation theory. The relations of the argument with the concept of logical inference and an illustration of argument in international comparative policy analysis: the analysis of arguments in the invasion of Iraq

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Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the 'Nouvelles Draperies'

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002

This paper seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the...

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Spanish Merino Wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: An Industrial Transformation in the Late-Medieval Low Countries

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper, a much revised version of an earlier paper (with different tables), seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort...

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Advancing Structural Reforms in OECD Countries: Lessons from Twenty Case Studies

Tompson, William; Dang, Thai-Thanh - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

This paper presents in summary form the findings that emerge from a study of 20 structural reform episodes in 10 OECD countries. The study’s principal messages may be summarised as follows. First, it pays to have an electoral mandate for reform. Secondly, major reforms should be accompanied by...

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Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism?: Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate

Berrebi, Claude; Klor, Esteban F. - RAND - 2008

This paper relies on the variation of terror attacks across time and space as an instrument to identify the causal effects of terrorism on the preferences of the Israeli electorate. The authors find that the occurrence of a terror attack within three months of the elections is associated with a...

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On Terrorism and Electoral Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Berrebi, Claude; Klor, Esteban F. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2004

dynamic model of reputation that captures the salient characteristics of this conflict. The equilibrium of the theoretical …

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War and the political zeitgeist: Evidence from the history of female suffrage

Hicks, Daniel L. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 31 (2013) C, pp. 60-81

Despite the upheaval associated with warfare, empirical evidence linking conflict with institutional development is … inclusion. Employing survival analysis, I find that during the 20th century, nations engaging in external conflict were more … than twice as likely to extend the franchise to women in the post-conflict period, even after controlling for other …

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Institutions and prosperity

Jennings, Colin - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2013

This article reviews 'Pillars of Prosperity' by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson and 'Why Nations Fail' by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Both books are focussed on the role of institutions in determining the wealth of nations and the review compares and contrasts the different approaches...

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Political Legitimacy and Technology Adoption

Cosgel, Metin M.; Miceli, Thomas J.; Rubin, Jared - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 168 (2012) 3, pp. 339-361

A fundamental question of economic and technological history is why some civilizations adopted new and important technologies and others did not. In this paper, we construct a simple political-economy model that suggests that rulers may not accept a productivity-enhancing technology when it...

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An Economic Theory of Foreign Interventions and Regime Change

Bonfatti, Roberto - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the political preferences of the foreign country are determined by its different economic ties with alternative local groups. Stronger economic ties make a group more influenceable from the outside, and thus more willing to grant economic...

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