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Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts

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Internal versus external rent-seeking with in-group inequality and public good provision

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We examine how inequality in the endowment of secure wealth, mediated through voluntary public good provision, affects rent-seeking within and between groups. We model a scenario where two communities, each internally differentiated into rich, intermediate and poor segments, contest one another...

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A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024

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Assimilation, criminality and ethnic conflict

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014

We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...

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Colonial Experience and Postcolonial Underdevelopment in Africa

Mizuno, Nobuhiro; Okazawa, Ryosuke - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2009

IIn this paper, we analyze the connection between the history of colonial rule and postcolonial development in Africa. We focus on the fact that many African colonies were governed by indirect rule. Under indirect rule, indigenous people are divided into two groups: a privileged ruling group and...

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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (on Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Iyigun, Murat - 2021

The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire's unique culture and institutions to examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and...

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Kolo, Philipp - 2016 - Draft version from December 2015

Existing indices of ethnic diversity are generally based on pre-defined groups, disregarding the (dis)similarities between them. This paper proposes an index that includes the dissimilarity in language, ethno-racial characteristcs and religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted...

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Can a Sovereign Protect Investors from Itself? Tribal Institutions to Spur Reservation Investment

Haddock, David D. - 2012

A bilateral danger of underperformance exists when two parties sink investments with payoffs dependent on the behavior of the other. There are five general categories of defense against that danger: (1) Legal action against a misbehaving co-investor; (2) Reliance on a reputation for...

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Internal v. external rent-seeking with in-group inequality and public good provision

Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021

We examine how inequality in the endowment of secure wealth, mediated through voluntary public communities, each internally differentiated into rich, intermediate and poor segments, contest one another for the division of some rent. Any rent accruing to a community is distributed internally...

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