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Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010

focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

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Social Identity and Group Lending

Chatterjee, Prabirendra; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2004

The success of joint liability programs depends on nature and composition of borrowing groups. Group formation is a costly process and in our model these costs vary with the social identity of group partners. We show that risk heterogeneity in a borrowing group may arise due to the social...

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Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies

Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011

We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...

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The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war … with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices (such as subsistence farming) are shown to enhance welfare in the … post-war period. Market and social exchange induce only limited welfare gains. Cotton adoption reduces household welfare …

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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The … paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique …

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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data … estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies differ from pre …

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Conflict experiences and household expectations on recovery: Survey evidence from northern Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2010

We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals are likely to report negative expectations if they were exposed to conflict events in the past. We combine individual and household level data from the Northern Uganda Livelihood...

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Zur Geschichte des "arbeitnehmernah" und "keynesianisch" geltenden Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) seit den 50er Jahren

Wagner, Gert G. - 2023

Für das im Jahr 2025 stattfindende 100-jährige Jubiläum des DIW Berlin und dessen Geschichte ist die hier vorgelegte …

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Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy Facing Socio-Political Instability

Ghate, Chetan; Le, Quan Vu; Zak, Paul J. - 2002

We present a model of optimal government policy when policy choices may exacerbate socio-political instability (SPI). We show that optimal policy that takes into account SPI transforms a standard concave growth model into a model with both a poverty trap and endogenous growth. The resulting...

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Terrorism and trade

Nitsch, Volker; Schumacher, Dieter - 2003

This paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find...

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