Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Conflict and Contest written by Shane Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Conflict and Economics written by Pablo Sánchez Buelna and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Discrimination and Conflict written by Aniruddha Mitra and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Competition and Interactions written by Jaesoo Kim and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competition Conflict and Institutions written by Giovanni Ko and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three papers on completion and conflict in three distinct but related settings. The first paper develops a model of tax compliance and enforcement where homogenous agents receive signals about how tolerant the tax authority is of evasion, and where the latter has imperfect means of detecting evasion. The main results show that increasing the quality of the information that taxpayers have about the tax authority's tolerance of evasion may increase compliance. This is because if the signals are sufficiently informative, taxpayers are engaged in Bertrand-like competition: if all taxpayers are evading a similar amount, each will have a strong incentive to evade slightly below that amount in order to escape detection. This logic is directly opposed to the culture of secrecy that prevails in many tax administrations. The second paper, jointly written with Madhav Aney, deals with the question of how specialists in violence like the military or the police can commit not to abuse their coercive power. The answer that the paper provides is that competition between specialists in violence creates incentives for them not to expropriate from civilians. The main theoretical results are that these incentives become stronger as competition becomes more intense, both in terms of the number of specialists in violence and in the evenness of their strengths. The hypothesis that greater numbers of specialists in violence leads to less expropriation is tested using crosscountry regressions and found to be strongly consistent with the data, especially for the case of developing countries. The third paper analyses the equilibria of two-player imperfectly discriminating contests of the power-form under incomplete information. This paper develops a method for solving for the Bayesian Nash equilibria of such games by working backwards from the equilibrium distributions of effort, rather than forwards from the distributions of the agents' types. This method is used to prove that there exist no distributions of type such that effort is an affine function of the type. The method is used to construct an equilibrium where effort is loglogistically distributed, carrying out comparative statics. This equilibrium is shown to be special in that it exhibits a formal equivalence to that in a contest with complete information.
Download or read book Conflict Demand and Economic Development written by Deepankar Basu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive overview of three key areas: heterodox macroeconomics, development economics and classical political economy. It offers an alternative macroeconomic framework to analyse policies with an emphasis on issues of equity and justice. With contributions by leading economists from across the world, it examines the growth and distribution of income; trade and finance in developing countries; classical political economy and Marxist theory; dualism in the US economy; economic crisis; and agrarian economy in poor countries. It explores themes such as the effect of an exogenous shock to wage share; Harrodian instability and Steindlian solutions; economics and politics of social democracy; the role of power in the macroeconomy; economic development through the promotion of domestic value chains; and reflections on primitive accumulation. Going beyond the neo-classical tradition, the volume opens up a new vista of economics by discussing unexplored questions. It provides a refreshing treatment of time-tested ideas as well as discussions of recent developments and current research. A major intervention in heterodox macroeconomics and a tribute to macroeconomist Amit Bhaduri, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics, political economy, development studies, sociology, political science, public administration, economic theory, economic history, economic geography and critical studies, as well as professionals, economists and policymakers.
Download or read book Three Essays on the Theory of Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions written by Leon Earle Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Education in Post conflict Settings written by Ricardo Jorge Moreira Goulão Santos and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economic Causes of Conflict written by Sahar Farid Yousef and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second essay, I examine whether experiencing a drought exacerbates the effect of an increase in staple food prices on urban and rural social unrest in Africa and whether liberalizing trade in staple foods mitigates this effect. I use an instrumental variable model to study the impact on social unrest of a change in domestic food prices while experiencing a drought with and without trade liberalization. I use data on anti-government demonstrations from the Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) along with the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), the domestic and international staple food prices from the FAO, and tariff data from UNCTAD. I find that an increase in staple food prices while experiencing drought increases social unrest in urban areas and reduces it in rural areas; liberalizing trade in staple foods reduces both effects.
Download or read book Three Essays on Competition Under Uncertainty written by Jongwoo Park and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Conflict Economics written by Friedhelm Thomas Hentschel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation analyzes in four essays various issues of political conflicts, especially secessionist and proxy conflicts. In all four essays, I apply appropriate game theoretic models in order to analyze the strategic interactions of the conflicting parties. In the first essay, I investigate the occurrence of unravelling secessions. I analyze the conditions which lead to an unravelling process of secessions. My model shows that an initial secession increases the probability of consecutive conflicts. In the second essay, I investigate the role of a third party in ethnically motivated secessions when the secessionist group's objective is to merge with the third party. I analyze the conditions for third-party intervention and analyze how the participating player's behavior depends on heterogeneity costs, tax rate, sanctions, and fighting abilities. My model shows that a third party will only intervene if the secessionist region has a disadvantage in fighting and if the third party's potential gain from annexation is sufficiently high. In the third essay, I investigate the strategic behavior in proxy contests. I analyze the third parties' willingness to provide support for their respective allies. My model shows that conflict costs are irrelevant for the players' behavior if they receive support. In the last essay, my co-authors and I investigate conflicts with symmetric and asymmetric payoff structures. We analyze the participating agents' conflict behavior and compare their behavior in conflicts with symmetric and asymmetric payoff structures. Our model shows that conflicts with an asymmetric payoff structure are fought less intensively.
Download or read book Three Essays in Competition Economics written by Dongyu Guo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Competition Economics written by Ke Liu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Ideas You Should Forget written by Bruno S. Frey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts. Economics is a vigorous and progressive science, which does not lose its force when particular parts of its theory are empirically invalidated; instead, they contribute to the accumulation of knowledge. By discussing problematic theoretical assumptions and drawing on the latest empirical research, the authors question specific hypotheses and reject major economic ideas from the “Coase Theorem” to “Say’s Law” and “Bayesianism.” Many of these ideas remain prominent among politicians, economists and the general public. Yet, in the light of the financial crisis, they have lost both their relevance and supporting empirical evidence. This fascinating and thought-provoking collection of 71 short essays written by respected economists and social scientists from all over the world will appeal to anyone interested in scientific progress and the further development of economics.
Download or read book Law Economics and Conflict written by Kaushik Basu and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Law, Economics, and Conflict, Kaushik Basu and Robert C. Hockett bring together international experts to offer new perspectives on how to take analytic tools from the realm of academic research out into the real world to address pressing policy questions. As the essays discuss, political polarization, regional conflicts, climate change, and the dramatic technological breakthroughs of the digital age have all left the standard tools of regulation floundering in the twenty-first century. These failures have, in turn, precipitated significant questions about the fundamentals of law and economics. The contributors address law and economics in diverse settings and situations, including central banking and the use of capital controls, fighting corruption in China, rural credit markets in India, pawnshops in the United States, the limitations of antitrust law, and the role of international monetary regimes. Collectively, the essays in Law, Economics, and Conflict rethink how the insights of law and economics can inform policies that provide individuals with the space and means to work, innovate, and prosper—while guiding states and international organization to regulate in ways that limit conflict, reduce national and global inequality, and ensure fairness. Contributors: Kaushik Basu; Kimberly Bolch; University of Oxford; Marieke Bos, Stockholm School of Economics; Susan Payne Carter, US Military Academy at West Point; Peter Cornelisse, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Gaël Giraud, Georgetown University; Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University; Robert C. Hockett; Karla Hoff, Columbia University and World Bank; Yair Listokin, Yale Law School; Cheryl Long, Xiamen University and Wang Yanan Institute for Study of Economics (WISE); Luis Felipe López-Calva, UN Development Programme; Célestin Monga, Harvard University; Paige Marta Skiba, Vanderbilt Law School; Anand V. Swamy, Williams College; Erik Thorbecke, Cornell University; James Walsh, University of Oxford. Contributors: Kimberly B. Bolch, Marieke Bos, Susan Payne Carter, Peter A. Cornelisse, Gaël Giraud, Nicole Hassoun, Karla Hoff, Yair Listokin, Cheryl Long, Luis F. López-Calva, Célestin Monga, Paige Marta Skiba, Anand V. Swamy, Erik Thorbecke, James Walsh
Download or read book Three Essays in Economics and International Politics written by Robert Lowell Powell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Conflict written by Tillman Hönig and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
