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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Credible Commitment"”.
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Credible commitment and economic growth in Africa
… a country’s political institutions provide for a credible regime of property rights at low transaction costs ultimately defines its success on the economic sphere. On balance, scholars have shied away from applying this, otherwise useful paradigm, to an African dataset. Research on African …
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Into the fold: security fears and power sharing, the credible commitment of rebel military integration and durable peace
… can attempt to reduce the severity of this credible commitment problem by including power-sharing mechanism in the peace agreement. One such power-sharing mechanism is the integration of rebel fighters into the national military. I argue that this military integration provides the disarming …
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Not about rules, but about good deals: The political economy of securing inclusive capital investment and transformation in South African mining
… investment. It studies deals as the basis of credible commitment and as the “arena of action” in the context of a relatively robust rule of law. What kind of deals produce capital investment and transformation, and what kind of deals produce predation and isomorphism? Using process tracing …
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Inter -Rebel Group Dynamics: Cooperation or Competition. The Case of South Asia
… to cooperate with other groups that can make a credible commitment. The model indicates that groups are most likely to forge cooperative relations when the government undertakes large-scale counter-insurgency operations. Also groups are more likely to establish cooperative relations with other …
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The politics of change? A critical analysis of power sharing in Kenya after Kofi Annan's mediation in 2008
… and political accountability problems and credible commitment problems, barriers to a successful power sharing agreement can be examined. To analyse how the mediation affected power sharing, five variables concerning the mediation are examined, namely the use of leverage, horizontal and …
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Essays in international finance
… chapter argues that the evidence suggests that a credible commitment to floating exchange rates during severe external shocks would help insure emerging markets against sudden stops. The third chapter evaluates the link between foreign investment and corruption in emerging markets.
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Congestion pricing : policy dimensions, public rejection and impacts
… political problems including collective action, credible commitment, free riding and loss aversion are posed as specific combinations of perceived inequity and uncertainty about congestion pricing's benefits and costs. Societal views are then shown to moderate the public's sentiment about this …
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Choosing an international legal regime: How much justice would you trade for peace?
… situation: asymmetric information, problem of credible commitment, and issue indivisibility. These studies, however, neglect to consider the legal/institutional environment where bargaining occurs. In contrast, I argue that this is a crucial factor in determining whether or not bargaining might …
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Fighting for frames or prospects for peace? : building a prospect theory model of ethnic civil war termination
… and Fett's expected utility theory, Walter's credible commitment theory, and Kaufmann's demographic separation theory. I then perform a first-brush test of my theory by applying all four models to two case studies, the Ethiopian-Eritrean War and the Bosnian Civil War, to determine which model …
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The organization of platform leadership : an empirical investigation of Intel's management processes aimed at fostering complementary innovation by third parties
… with third-parties is essential to convey credible commitment not to compete with complementors. To succeed, Intel must manage both external and internal tensions. The main external tensions relate to the perception of a conflict of interest in Intel's innovation-facilitating activities. …
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Critical Events, Commitment, and the Probability of Civil War
… within the state, yet such promises are not credible given that the leadership may regain its strength. Similarly, opposition groups lack the ability to make credible commitments as they expect to be more powerful in the future. Both the government and opposition groups could benefit from …
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Essays on banking
… imperfect and the lending instruments are loan commitments. Under relationship banking both banks and borrowers have bargaining power. The borrowers have substantial bargaining power when the costs of switching banks are small. In this case, it pays the banks to charge interest rates below the …
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Essays on savings, investment, and monetary policy
… most welfare losses relative to the first best. Credible commitment by the central bank is essential to implementing optimal policy, which backloads the most negative rates. The option to set negative nominal rates lowers the optimal long-run inflation target, and abolishing paper currency is …
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Three Essays on Public Procurement
… anchored in knowledge—and posits that leader commitment influences adoption of the knowledge-based approach through a “credible commitment” mechanism. In essence, tenured leaders serve an advocacy role for the procurements they oversee, ensuring the procurements receive sufficient support and …
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Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo
… into existing scholarship on transnationalism, credible commitment, legalism, and rational design. This analysis, moreover, has broad implications for our understanding of the forces that can lead to profound political and legal change.
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Rethinking Judicial Independence in Democracy and Autocracy
<p>Building independent courts is a commitment by political leaders that they are willing to tie their hands, restrain their (often arbitrary) power, and respect judicial decisions even if the courts rule against them. But if political leaders are rational, why do they persist in their respectful …
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The institutionalization of professional communities: Insights from studies of professionals in Hungary
… 3.3: BA membership in general does not increase credible commitment among business partners. However, BAs with functions relevant to contract enforcement enable firms to reduce the threat of opportunism with any business partner. 3.4: BA membership does not facilitate the creation of new …