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We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one's incentive to arm given the opponent's...
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We investigate the effect of trade integration on interstate military conflict. Our empirical analysis, based on a large panel data set of 243,225 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also...
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This paper investigates the effect of trade integration on military conflict. Our empirical analysis,based on a large panel data set of 290,040 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade interdependence and global trade openness significantly...
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real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust …
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resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the … inability of citizens to cooperate and form effective lobbies. Preliminary calculations using data from the World Bank show that …
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We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one’s incentive to arm given the opponent’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892081
and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular …
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While organised crime comes in a variety of guises, in this paper we argue that organised crime in the Pacific can be best framed as a nexus between political elites and seemingly licit actors. We argue that three changes over the past two decades have made it increasingly likely that the...
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, measures of democracy, human development, corruption perception index and per capita income, which in turn jointly influence … 2-SLS. Empirically, it has been established that globalization, democracy, human development and low level of corruption …
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uses three different measures of perceived corruption: (1) the World Bank’s Control of Corruption measure, (2) Transparency … GLOBE study of House et al. [2004]) on the levels of perceived corruption. Covering the period from 2000 to 2010, the study … International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, and (3) Heritage Foundation’s Freedom from Corruption Index. A system of three …
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