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How free trade can help convert the 'Arab Spring' into permanent peace and democracy
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez, Inmaculada; Wijkman, … - 2012
Eastern Partnership attempted to further political stability and economic development by liberalising trade between the EU and … establishing political democracy and human rights in key countries. In response, the EU increased the emphasis in the ENP on … among the countries of the region as well as between each such country and the EU. Using a panel gravity model of trade …
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Which conflicts can the European neighbourhood policy help resolve?
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2012
the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer … prosperity and detente. The EU has a strong motive in this, since conflicts in its neighbourhood spill-over into the EU itself …, strong intraregional trade, and the prospect of accession to the EU. It concludes that the EU's Member States must give …
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Migration policy : lessons from cooperatives
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation certificate. In exchange, the immigrants may enter the country of choice without danger. The revenue goes to the country of the recipient nation rather than to human smugglers....
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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016 - This version: March 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...
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Self-enforcing peace agreements that preserve the status quo
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2021
On the basis of a single-period, guns-versus-butter, complete-information model in which two agents dispute control over an insecure portion of their combined output, we study the choice between a peace agreement that maintains the status quo without arming (or unarmed peace) and open conflict...
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International trade and stable resolutions of resource disputes
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022
We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states' military capacities, but...
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Potentially harmful international cooperation on global public good provision
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2012
Recent international climate negotiations suggest that complete agreements are unlikely to materialize. Instead, partial cooperation between like-minded countries appears a more likely outcome. In this paper we analyze the effects of such partial cooperation between like-minded countries. In...
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Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?
Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K. M. - 2011
This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230883
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Town twinning and German city growth
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Oumer, Abdella - 2014
After World War II, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience, and it was aimed at creating renewed international understanding and co-operation between German cities and cities in other countries. The contacts created by town twinning...
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Brothers in arms : an experiment on the alliance puzzle
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010
Our experimental analysis of alliances in conflicts leads to three main findings. First, even in the absence of repeated interaction, direct contact or communication, free-riding among alliance members is far less pronounced than what would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this...
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