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Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death

Jebwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - 2017

cities with a history of antisemitism (consistent with scapegoating) and less likely in cities where Jews played an important …

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Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death

Jebwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - 2017

cities with a history of antisemitism (consistent with scapegoating) and less likely in cities where Jews played an important …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255842

Malthus Meets Luther: The Economics Behind the German Reformation

Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016

The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...

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Malthus Meets Luther : The Economics Behind the German Reformation

Curuk, Malik - 2016

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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation

Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016

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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities

Belloc, Marianna - 2016

This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...

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Ethnic polarization, potential conflict and civil wars

Montalvo, José Garcia; Reynal-Querol, Marta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

This paper analyzes the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization, and conflict. In recent years many … channel is not through an increase in potential ethnic conflict. We discuss the appropriateness of indices of polarization to … explain this nexus is the effect of ethnic heterogeneity on rent-seeking activities and the increase in potential conflict …

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Voting as a war of attrition

Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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Incentives dominate selection : chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences

Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019

The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....

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Who will vote quadratically? : voter turnout and votes cast under quadratic voting

Kaplow, Louis; Kominers, Scott Duke - 2016

Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few … that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting …

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