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Common agency and state-owned enterprise reform / Siqueira, Kevin; Sandler, Todd; Cauley, Jon

Sandler, Todd	Journal Article
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2009.

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This paper applies a common-agency model to demonstrate why recent enterprise reforms that assign the State Asset Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) a greater role in running China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are apt to fail. In a theoretical framework, we show that local principals' incentive payments are likely to clash with those of SASAC as local SOE principals' promote social stability and SASAC bolsters SOE efficiency. A second-best outcome requires a social planner to restrict actions by local principals and to impose taxes/subsidies to address inter-principal externalities. In the long run, the simplest solution is to privatize SOEs and find a public-sector funding source for promoting social stability.

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China ; Common Agency ; State-Owned Enterprise ; Chinese Economic Reforms ; Principal-Agent Problem ; Free Riding ;
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ID: 084547

Defensive counterterrorism measures and domestic politics / Siqueira, Kevin; Sandler, Todd

Sandler, Todd	Journal Article
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2008.

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Unlike most of the literature, this paper includes domestic political considerations in which two countries must decide defensive countermeasures against a common terrorist threat. A delegation problem arises as voters strategically choose a policymaker whose preferences differ from their own. As a consequence, countries limit the presumed oversupply of defensive countermeasures. Thus, the inclusion of domestic politics gives a new perspective on counterterrorism. The timing of elections is also shown to make a difference.

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Terrorism ; Counterterrorism ; Domestic Politics ; Externalities ; Delegation Problem

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ID: 061485

Political and militant wings within dissident movements and org / Siqueira, Kevin

Apr 2005

Siqueira, Kevin	Journal Article
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Apr 2005.

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Terrorism ; Counter Terrorism

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ID: 187353

Presence of Revenge in Conflict and the Possibility of Complete Deterrence / Chen, Jingxian; Siqueira, Kevin

Siqueira, Kevin	Journal Article
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We allow for the possibility of revenge in attacker-defender conflicts under a variety of settings including, for example, when one of the players faces a no-win situation. In a two-player two-period conflict where revenge stems from the grievances of one of the parties to the original conflict, we show that the presence of revenge can influence the amount of effort devoted to the conflict and may in certain circumstances, exacerbate it. We also give conditions when the presence of revenge can deter an attack altogether.

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Conflict ; Deterrence ; Revenge ; Contest-Success Function

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ID: 076114

Terrorists versus the government: strategic interaction, support, and sponsorship / Siqueira, Kevin; Sandler, Todd

Sandler, Todd	Journal Article
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2006.

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Terrorism ; Counter Terrorism ; Noncoperative Games ; Leader-Follower

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