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The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018
We use a policy experiment in Indonesia to show how local political boundaries affect ethnic tension. Redrawing district borders along group lines reduces conflict.
Samuel Bazzi, Matthew Gudgeon
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Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan: Comment

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2018
In this comment on Callen et al. (2014), I revisit recent evidence uncovering a “preference for certainty” in violation of dominant normative and descriptive theories of decision-making under risk.
Ferdinand M. Vieider
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The Geography of Conflicts and Regional Trade Agreements

open access: yes, 2012
In addition to standard trade gains, regional trade agreements (RTAs) can promote peaceful relations by increasing the opportunity cost of conflicts. Country pairs with large trade gains from RTAs and a high probability of conflict should be more likely ...
Philippe Martin   +2 more
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Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis

The American Economic Review, 2023
Does armed conflict reduce trade, even in noncombat areas, through the destruction of intergroup social capital? We analyze Ukrainian trade transactions before and after the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict.
V. Korovkin, Alexey Makarin
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Repression Works (Just Not in Moderation)

Comparative Political Studies, 2023
Why does government violence deter political challengers in one context but inflame them in the next? This paper argues that repression increases opposition activity at low and moderate levels but decreases it in the extreme.
Y. Zhukov
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A Minimalist Model for the Ruble During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Social Science Research Network, 2022
This note isolates an overlooked economic force for the ruble to appreciate in response to international sanctions limiting exports to Russia. The intuition is that when Russians are unable to buy the mix of foreign goods they wish, foreign goods become ...
G. Lorenzoni, I. Werning
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Insecurity and Ownership Disputes as Barriers to Technology Diffusion

Social Science Research Network, 2023
How does the insecurity of output matter for the diffusion of technology? Based on a guns-versus-butter model involving two countries (a technology leader and a technology laggard), our analysis characterizes the dependence of equilibrium technology ...
O. Camacho   +3 more
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Game Theory and the First World War

Journal of Economic Literature, 2023
Books by Scott Wolford and Roger Ransom show how economic theories of games and decisions can be fruitfully applied to problems in World War I. This vital application offers fundamental insights into the analytical methods of game theory.
R. Myerson
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Elite Persistence, Power Struggles, and Coalition Dynamics

Social Science Research Network, 2023
We study why a ruling minority (the elite) inevitably emerges from power struggles. Power struggles are modeled as iterative coalition formations where players use their power to form alliances and eliminate others without formal commitment. We show that
Xinyu Fan
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ПРОГНОЗУВАННЯ ПОКАЗНИКІВ ІННОВАЦІЙНОСТІ ІНДУСТРІЇ ТУРИЗМУ У ПЕРІОДІ ПОСТКОНФЛІКТНОГО ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ

Проблеми і перспективи розвитку підприємництва, 2023
УДК 338.48:332.145; JEL Classification: C53, D74, L83, O18, R58 Цвілий С.М. ПРОГНОЗУВАННЯ ПОКАЗНИКІВ ІННОВАЦІЙНОСТІ ІНДУСТРІЇ ТУРИЗМУ У ПЕРІОДІ ПОСТКОНФЛІКТНОГО ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ Мета.
Сергій Цвілий
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