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Janeba, Eckhard - 2022

from abandoning the international economic order. In the context of the US-Iran-EU conflict, I argue that the oil and gas …

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A new approach to solving production-appropriation games with many heterogeneous players

Cornes, Richard; Hartley, Roger; Tamura, Yuji - 2010

We set out a model of production and appropriation involving many players, who differ with respect to both resource endowments and productivities. We write down the model in a novel way that permits our analysis to avoid the proliferation of dimensions associated with the best response function...

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Mobility and conflict

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2012

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

democratization, international openness, and conflict. It also reviews studies of political integration and disintegration that focus … discusses recent empirical studies that shed light on the relations among heterogeneity, conflict, and borders. This line of …

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The Economics of Nation-Building: Methodological Toolkit and Policy Lessons

Rohner, Dominic; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2024

This article reviews the recent burgeoning political economics research on nation-building. We focus on three main aspects of this body of work. First, we discuss methodological issues related to measuring nation-building outcomes and provide a synthesis of studies that employ different...

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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2023

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Economic Warfare

Spiro, Daniel - 2023

What actions should we expect countries to take when engaged in economic warfare? This paper first shows that the goal of winning a war implies a very simple and intuitive objective of economic warfare: maximize one’s own less the opponent’s (weight-adjusted) payoff. This objective function...

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Economic Warfare

Spiro, Daniel - 2023

What actions should we expect countries to take when engaged in economic warfare? This paper first shows that the goal of winning a war implies a very simple and intuitive objective of economic warfare: maximize one's own less the opponent's (weight-adjusted) payoff. This objective function is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377418

Alliances in the shadow of conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012

conflict and more intense fighting. …

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Insuring Peace : Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict

Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023

conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …

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