Search Results - subject:"Fractionalization"

Determinants of software piracy: economics, institutions, and technology

Goel, Rajeev; Nelson, Michael - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 34 (2009) 6, pp. 637-658

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Rapacious Resource Depletion and Excessive Investment Fuelled by Rival Factions and Insecure Property Rights

Ploeg, Frederick van der - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2009

For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of naturalexhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country...

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Fractionalization and the Fight over Natural Resources: Ethnicity, language, religion, and the onset of civil war

Brunnschweiler, Christa N; Bulte, Erwin H - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2009

We use three different measures of fractionalization (with varying potential for members of one fraction to … combination of ethnic fractionalization and resource wealth seems to translate into a greater risk of war, but the same is not … true for linguistic and religious fractionalization. This is consistent with the “greed hypothesis” as a driver of conflict …

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Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007

Campos, Nauro F; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy; Saleh, Ahmad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL … ethnic fractionalization on economic growth across countries using unique time-varying measures. We first replicate the … measures, econometric estimators, as well as to the use of an index of ethnic-religious-linguistic fractionalization. …

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CULTURAL DIVERSITY, DOMESTIC POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PUBLIC EXPENDITURES

Akdede, Sacit Hadi; Hwang, Jinyoung; Can, Emre - In: Defence and Peace Economics 19 (2008) 3, pp. 235-247

This study investigates the relationship between cultural diversity, political violence and public expenditures. Using a cross-section of cultural diversity indices, it is empirically examined whether cultural diversity caused or intensified political violence in the 1980s and 1990s. It is found...

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto F; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic,...

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Causes of corruption: a survey of cross-country analyses and extended results

Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Gerlagh, Reyer - In: Economics of Governance 9 (2008) 3, pp. 245-263

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Genuine Saving and the Voracity Effect

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

that it saves and invests more than a homogenous society. The power struggle boosts output. Nevertheless, fractionalization …-pool externalities. Fractionalization induces, however, positive genuine saving as measured by the World Bank. …

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Using fractionalization indexes: deriving methodological principles for growth studies from time series evidence

Fedderke, Johannes; Luiz, John; Kadt, Raphael - In: Social Indicators Research 85 (2008) 2, pp. 257-278

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Voracious Transformation of a Common Natural Resource into Productive Capital

Ploeg, Frederick van der - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2008

We analyze a power struggle about the control of natural resources where competing factions in society have a private stock of financial assets and a common stock of natural resources with inadequately defined private property rights. We solve a dynamic common-pool problem and obtain political...

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