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social factors such as communication. This complements the literature that argues that altruistic behavior is instrumental in …
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This article delivers the first comprehensive analysis of the new database, 'Mémoire des hommes', which gathers more than 1 Million French soldiers officially recognized as dead for France during WW1. Crossing this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by...
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This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is constituted by independent political entities, international trade flows take place in a system where property rights are unsecured and RTAs should be understood as regulation...
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This paper studies the U.S. economy from an original point of view: that of the links existing between crisis and war … that are being implemented, as well as the "currency war" issue. Then, the central focus moves towards U.S. warfare as a … crisis and war exacerbe the current capitalist contradictions. …
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the stakes of political competition, and therefore reduce the intensity of the conflict over political power. In …
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Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...
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mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a simple model of decentralization as an … conflict only when those conditioning factors are controlled for. Furthermore, decentralization dampens all forms of ethnic …
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that aims at separating attitudes toward risk, imprecision and conflict and at determining if there is a demand for … under risk than under ambiguity (embracing here imprecision and conflict), revealing that people consider ambiguous … situations as inferior. Furthermore, respondents behave differently under imprecision and conflict. They exhibit a preference for …
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the international negotiations with complete and with asymmetric information in a dynamic framework. Results show that …
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We propose a mechanism for resolving bargaining problems.The mechanism allows two players to make a sequence of simultaneous propositions. At any step, as long as the players have not reached an agreement, they can choose to implement a lottery between the different propositions. In this aspect,...
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