Thorsten Janus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5935577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thorsten Janus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thorsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Janus |
| SIGNATURE | JANUS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6989-5258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does export underreporting contribute to the resource curse
Short and long run democracy diffusion
Technology adoption in autocratic economies: The role of fiscal capacity
What determines technology in autocratic regimes? In this paper, I assume that a rent‐extracting regime can adopt technology from the global technology frontier, tax‐paying citizens can oust the regime, and technology can decrease the ousting cost. I show that a lack of fiscal capacity can increase technology by preventing the ousting constraint from binding. Consistent with this prediction, tax collections and total factor productivity are negat…
Economic shocks, civil war and ethnicity
The political economy of fertility
Natural resource extraction and civil conflict
Interventions and Conflict Incentives
Recent literature suggests that well-intentioned third-party intervention in military conflict can lead to moral hazard by acting as a subsidy to rebellion. In this paper, the following are suggested: failure to intervene can also lead to conflict, which will be called the ‘insufficient deterrence’ problem; and a classification scheme for potential conflicts in the world, which can be used to derive the optimal intervention policy on a case-by-ca…
Interventions and Conflict Incentives
Recent literature suggests that well-intentioned third-party intervention in military conflict can lead to moral hazard by acting as a subsidy to rebellion. In this paper, the following are suggested: failure to intervene can also lead to conflict, which will be called the ‘insufficient deterrence’ problem; and a classification scheme for potential conflicts in the world, which can be used to derive the optimal intervention policy on a case-by-ca…
Natural resource extraction and civil conflict
The political economy of fertility
Economic shocks, civil war and ethnicity
Short and long run democracy diffusion
Technology adoption in autocratic economies: The role of fiscal capacity
What determines technology in autocratic regimes? In this paper, I assume that a rent‐extracting regime can adopt technology from the global technology frontier, tax‐paying citizens can oust the regime, and technology can decrease the ousting cost. I show that a lack of fiscal capacity can increase technology by preventing the ousting constraint from binding. Consistent with this prediction, tax collections and total factor productivity are negat…
Does export underreporting contribute to the resource curse
Economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)