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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform’s initial success having a negative impact...

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The Rise of Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2014

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...

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Aid, Growth and Devolution

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2009

This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...

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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness: Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...

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Opium for the Masses? Conflict-Induced Narcotics Production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - CESifo - 2009

We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...

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International Trade and Transnational Insecurity: How Comparative Advantage and Power are Jointly Determined

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - CESifo - 2009

We augment the canonical neoclassical model of trade to allow for interstate disputes over land, oil, water, or other resources. The costs of such disputes in terms of arming depend on the trade regime in place. Under either autarky or free trade, the larger country (in terms of factor...

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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - CESifo - 2014

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and...

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Democracy with Group Identity

Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has … therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role … populations, accounting for income and other influences, group identity increased voter turnout on average by some 8 percentage …

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Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games

Kovenock, Dan J.; Roberson, Brian - CESifo - 2015

In this paper, we generalize the General Lotto game and the Colonel Blotto game to allow for battlefield valuations that are heterogeneous across battlefields and asymmetric across players, and for the players to have asymmetric resource constraints. We completely characterize Nash equilibrium...

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Direct and Structural Discrimination in Contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - CESifo - 2013

This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the contestants’ prize...

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