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Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer analytical insights which are useful alongside the more conventional approach of case-studies. Indeed, the policy conclusions drawn from economic analysis sometimes cast doubt on conventional...
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This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
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This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273741
How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those who stayed in their communities of origin during the conflict …
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Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...
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religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted ethno-linguistic fractionalization index (DELF) is based on highly …
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, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …
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This paper explores the long-run relationship between institutions and wage outcomes in Europe and its periphery. I … ratio. While the first result corroborates existing work on the positive growth effects of better institutions, the second … finding is more novel to the literature. Some explanations are proposed for how stronger institutions can cause an increase in …
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-driven innovation. International conflict is the context that spurs the GPTs, which are driven by global leadership of critical …
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capture conservative or progressive values in addition to the cultural characteristics language and religion. Catholic … sociocultural characteristics qualifies the role of religion for educational production. The evidence suggests that Catholicism is …
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