This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous …

German war crimes during the occupation between 1941 and 1944. During months of open conflict between German and Greek … curtailed their purchases of German cars to a greater extent during conflict months than other parts of Greece. We conclude that … cultural aversion was a key determinant of purchasing behavior, and that memories of past conflict can affect economic choices …

bottled water in France. Our empirical evidence shows that manufacturers and retailers use nonlinear pricing contracts and in …

retailing bottled water in France. Our empirical evidence shows that manufacturers and retailers use non linear pricing …

In most developed countries, the provision of water is organized at a local level. The costs and tariffs vary … significantly, even between adjacent water utilities. Such heterogeneity is an obvious indication of the sector’s overall … inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of …

of demand parameters. We apply it to the market of bottled water in France, estimating a mixed logit demand model on …

investigate to what extent countries make efficient use of the very uneven water resources on a global scale. In particular, I … find that countries that are relatively water abundant tend to export more water-intensive products. This evidence supports … the hypothesis that water is a source of comparative advantage. My findings also indicate that water contributes …

Water use in the U.S. has followed a remarkable pattern since 1950, not mimicking the almost uninterrupted 110 percent … improvement in per capita GDP. After doubling between 1950 and 1980, the total volume of water withdrawn has stabilized and even ….S. to produce each dollar of its GDP with increasingly less water stems from long-term structural changes of the U …

single-tier organizations, even though they offer more scope for organizational conflict and have more executives that can be … influenced. These benefits derive from two effects. First, part of the conflict in multi-divisional organizations takes place on …