Beyond Greed: Why Armed Groups Tax

Fear and Greed in Tax Policy: A Qualitative Research Agenda

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Non-State Armed Groups

Beyond Tax Smoothing

Analyses of optimal government capital structure generally follow Bohn (1990) and Barro (1995) in assuming risk neutrality or an exogenous risk premium. These analyses usually conclude that the optimal government capital structure stabilizes tax rates over time and states of nature to the greatest extent possible, something known as “tax smoothing.” In this paper, we show that when an endogenou...

Ordered Greed

Fragile States: the Birthplace of Non-State Armed Groups in West Asia

Due to both internal and external factors, Western Asia has long been suffering from security problems and political instability. The institution of various military and militia groups in the region in the absence of powerful central governments is the focal point of the crises, where the internal and external factors meet. The development of such security and military interactions outside the ...