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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The Dependence of Bilateral Aid on Other Bilateral Giving

Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - CESifo - 2013

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity,...

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Government Repression and the Death Toll from Natural Disasters

Costa, Samia - CESifo - 2012

Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...

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Acting Autonomously or Mimicking the State and Peers? A Panel Tobit Analysis of Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; … - CESifo - 2009

NGO aid is still widely believed to be superior to official aid (ODA). However, the incentives of NGOs to excel and target aid to the poor and deserving are increasingly disputed. We contribute to the emerging literature on the allocation of NGO aid by performing panel Tobit estimations for...

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Food Prices and Political Instability

Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - CESifo - 2011

We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict … increase in the incidence of anti-government demonstrations, riots, and civil conflict. In the High Income Countries variations …-state conflict. Our empirical results point to a significant externality of variations in international food prices on Low Income …

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Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Reduce Land Conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - CESifo - 2014

based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …

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The Economics of Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - CESifo - 2012

as democratic outcomes, borders in a world of rent-seeking Leviathans, and borders as outcomes of conflict and wars …

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All-pay-all Aspects of Political Decision Making

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2013

We study decision making processes with non-standard all-pay structures. We motivate this interest through a group of regulatory, political, legal, military, and economic applications where individual actions determine the consequences for a larger group or the public. The common features of...

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Trade, Conflicts, and Political Integration: the Regional Interplays

Vicard, Vincent - CESifo - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the different forms taken by regional integration in different parts of the world. This raises the issue of the relationship between economic and political integration. The theoretical model shows that, in an insecure world, the interplays between...

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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism

Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - CESifo - 2004

dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …

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Controlling Complexity in Spatial Modelling

Paelinck, Jean - CESifo - 2000

. Extensions are considered, in particular controllability. A further application is then proposed, namely to hypergraph conflict … analysis, in particular conflict resolution. Many decisional conflicts at the spatial level can be axiomatised in this form; it …

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