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ON THE RENAISSANCE OF SOCIALISM
REVISTA PROCESOS DE MERCADO, 2022 Resumen: Hace treinta años, parecía que se ponía punto y final al socialismo, debido al derrumbamiento de la Unión Soviética. Pero recientemente ha resurgido, en nombre del Gran Cambio y otros lemas.
Jörg Guido Hülsmann
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Social Science Research Network, 2020 We measure how a network of heroes can legitimize and diffuse extreme political behaviors. We exploit newly declassified intelligence files, novel voting data, and regimental histories to show that home municipalities of French line regiments arbitrarily
Julia Cagé +3 more
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Business Research QuarterlyMany firms may successfully navigate an organizational crisis, but may find themselves entangled in another soon after. Building on a resource-dependence perspective, this study evaluates how certain investor characteristics foster organizational ...
Elena Mellado-Garcia +2 more
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Cultural Distance and Ethnic Civil Conflict
Social Science Research NetworkEthnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict, while others do not? I show that civil conflict in Africa is explained by ethnic groups’ cultural distance to the central government: an increase in ...
Eleonora Guarnieri
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CESifo Economic StudiesThe growing emphasis on nation-states and their pivotal role in economic development has emerged as a central theme in contemporary economic discourse. This review examines the concept of state capacity as discussed in the economic literature, focusing
Federica Braccioli +3 more
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Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in Germany over 600 Years
The American Economic Review, 2019 We study the role of economic incentives in shaping the coexistence of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants, using novel data from Germany for 1,000+ cities.
Sascha O. Becker, L. Pascali
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Identity Conflict, Ethnocentrism and Social Cohesion
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper uses a novel dataset on ethnic warfare to shed light on how conflict affects social identification and cohesion. A large body of anecdotal studies suggests that ethnic identities become more salient at times of conflict.
Matteo Sestito
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Inefficient Cooperation Under Stochastic and Strategic Uncertainty
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2022 Stochastic uncertainty can cause coordination problems that may hinder mutually beneficial cooperation. We propose a mechanism of ex-post voluntary transfers designed to circumvent these coordination problems and ask whether it can increase efficiency ...
Lisa V. Bruttel +3 more
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Cash and Conflict: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger
American Economic Review: InsightsConflict undermines development, while adverse economic shocks, in turn, can increase conflict risk. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could attenuate conflict risk by raising poor households’ opportunity costs. However, cash transfers may also
Patrick Premand, Dominic Rohner
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Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization
, 2011 In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion as indicators for conflict. We show that a suitable monotone transform of the equilibrium level of conflict can be proxied by a linear ...
J. Esteban, Debraj Ray
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