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Smith, Lones - 2014

Counterfeit money is the topic of television, movies, and lore but hardly seen by most of us - for only about one in ten thousand notes is found to be counterfeit, annually, in the USA (Judson and Porter 2003). And while the value of globally seized and passed counterfeit American dollars has...

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Global Futures of Energy, Climate, and Policy : Qualitative and Quantitative Foresight Towards 2055

Ansari, Dawud - 2019

Existing long-term energy and climate scenarios are typically a rather simple extrapolation of past trends. Both qualitative and quantitative outlooks co-exist, but they often focus narrowly on individual perspectives, which is opposed to the interlinked and complex nature of energy and climate....

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Postnuptial Agreements

Williams, Sean H. - 2007

whether, and under what terms, such agreements are enforceable. The skeptics argue that the bargaining dynamics within an … postnups is warranted. This Article draws on bargaining theory and numerous studies of strategic negotiation to argue that the … dynamics of spousal negotiation create significant limits on opportunism. Although spousal bargaining will often result in an …

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War as an Investment

Chadefaux, Thomas - 2013

States often bargain over objects that affect their future bargaining power. A large territory, for example, is not …-player bargaining games in which present outcomes affect future power, and show three main results: (i) in a two-player negotiation, war …

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The Economics of Counterfeiting

Quercioli, Elena - 2014

This paper develops a new tractable strategic theory of counterfeiting as a multi-market large game played by good and bad guys. There is free entry of bad guys, who choose whether to counterfeit, and what quality to produce. Opposing them is a continuum of good guys who select a costly...

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Trade, insecurity, and the costs of conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2022

Typically, economics assumes that property rights over productive resources or goods are perfectly defined and costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In this paper, we examine how international trade regimes...

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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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International Trade and Stable Resolutions of Resource Disputes

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022

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Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2022

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Trade interdependence, arming and the choice between war and peace

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2025 - Current Version: March 29, 2025

We consider a dynamic setting where two countries with competing claims to a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute through war or peacefully through settlement. War precludes international trade and can be destructive, but also locks gains and eliminates...

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