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Chapter 35 A Survey of Peace Economics
Anderton, Charles H.; Carter, John R. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 1211-1258). 2007
Peace economics can be defined as the use of economics to understand the causes and effects of violent conflict in the … peace economics, highlighting seminal as well as current contributions. Particularly noteworthy among the newer developments … relatively large cross-country panels. The topics surveyed include: the relation of peace economics to both defense economics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024394
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Agreeing to Fight : An Explanation of the Democratic Peace
Patty, John W.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2002
referred to as the "Democratic Peace," that modern democracies rarely go to war with one another. We propose that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121105
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National Borders, Conflict and Peace
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153423
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Money can't buy love but can it buy peace? : evidence from the EU programme for peace and reconciliation
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014
detailed PEACE II accounts. Noting potential selection and omitted variables biases, we implement two-stage random effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403908
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National borders, conflict and peace
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910523
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Conflict and development : recent research advances and future agendas
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017
conflict; on the linkages between agriculture, food security, and conflict; on the role of technology for peace; and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777138
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Peace and War in Territorial Disputes
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2008
Why do sovereign states sometimes fail to settle territorial disputes peacefully? Also, why do even peaceful settlements of territorial disputes rarely call for the resulting border to be unfortified? This paper explores a class of answers to these questions that is based on the following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064868
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War and Democracy
Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2021
equilibrium if all countries are democracies. Three key findings emerge. First, the perpetual peace equilibrium hypothesized by … exist with a positive war frequency. Third, if multiple equilibria exist, the perpetual peace equilibrium may be unstable in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320945
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Military expenditure, policy syndromes and tourism in the world
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
improved when military expenditure is used as a tool to mitigate perceived and real security risks that potentially reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265877
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The Diseconomies of Terrorism
Phillips, Peter J. - 2018
The Global Terrorism Database contains many active and inactive terrorist groups. Whether one considers their size to be measured in terms of grassroots support or number of members (individual terrorists), the defining characteristic of the terrorist groups contained in the GTD is smallness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184189