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Advances in Management and Applied Economics, 2022 The study of TMT heterogeneity on corporate performance is a hot topic in corporate governance. However, the relationship between TMT heterogeneity and corporate performance is inconclusive, and there are fewer studies on TMT exogenous factors.
Jianbin Wei, Yanzhao Zhang
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The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crime, and Public Policy in Switzerland
The American Economic Review, 2019 We study empirically how past exposure to conflict in origin countries makes migrants more violence-prone in their host country, focusing on asylum seekers in Switzerland. We exploit a novel and unique dataset on all crimes reported in Switzerland by the
M. Couttenier +3 more
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The Logic of Insurgent Electoral Violence
The American Economic Review, 2018 Competitive elections are essential to establishing the political legitimacy of democratizing regimes. We argue that insurgents undermine the state’s mandate through electoral violence.
Luke N. Condra +3 more
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Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
The American Economic Review, 2019 Natural resources can have a negative impact on the economy through corruption and civil conflict. This paper tests whether information can counteract this political resource curse.
A. Armand +3 more
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On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict
, 2008 A classical theme in social analysis views economic class divisions as the main cause of social conflict. Yet many, if not most of the conflicts we observe today appear to be ethnic in nature.
J. Esteban, Debraj Ray
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Risk Attitudes and Conflict in the Household
, 2021 Risk attitudes are of central importance in individual and group decision-making. This paper studies risk attitudes in the household, and examines whether heterogeneity in risk attitudes within the household reduces marital surplus.
Marta Serra-Garcia
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Team Contests with Multiple Pairwise Battles
, 2015 We consider a multi-battle team contest in which players from two rival teams form pairwise matches to fight in distinct component battles, which are carried out sequentially or (partially) simultaneously.
Qiang Fu, Jingfeng Lu, Yue Pan
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LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND REDISTRIBUTION
, 2009 This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad cross-section of countries. We use the notion of "linguistic distances" and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances ...
K. Desmet +2 more
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War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance During World War Ii
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018 We analyze the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against an authoritarian regime, in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC radio on the intensity of internal resistance.
Stefano Gagliarducci +3 more
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Income Opportunities and Sea Piracy in Indonesia : Evidence from Satellite Data
, 2016 The effect of climatic variation on conflict and crime is well established, but less is known about the mechanism through which this effect operates. This study contributes to the literature by exploiting a new source of exogenous variation in climate to
Sebastian Axbard
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