We would like to encourage all IMA PhD students and staff to produce a (or exhibit an existing) poster about their current or past research activities / projects. There will be a best poster award in form of an Amazon book voucher! If you would like to contribute, please send me your poster title by Friday, 12:00. Your poster needs to be ready on Monday (as a pdf file), so that it can be printe...

This paper studies the incidence of civil war over time. We put forward a canonical model of civil war, which relates the incidence of conflict to circumstances, institutions and features of the underlying economy and polity. We use this model to derive testable predictions and to interpret the cross-sectional and times-series variations variations in civil conflict. Our most novel emprical fin...

An important goal of schooling is to support students’ personal well-being, including to enhance their self-esteem (Bagley, 1989b; Bagley, Verma, Mallick, & Young, 1979). Self-esteem and self-concept (used as interchangeable constructs) are linked to scholastic achievement (Byrne, 1990), and, according to Kaplan (1980), inversely to school drop-out, delinquency, premature sexual activity, unwan...

Dr. Bagley is the AAFP’s medical director of quality improvement. He was formerly in private practice for more than 25 years in Latham, N.Y., where he led his practice’s participation in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Idealized Design of Clinical Office Practice initiative. Conflicts of interest: none reported. After nearly two years and a lot of research, the Future of Family Medic...

In this paper, different topologies of dual-frequency modified 3-way Bagley polygon power dividers are designed and analyzed. Equal split power division is achieved at arbitrary design frequencies. In the first structure, two-section transmission line transformer is used to realize the dual-frequency operation. In the second and third structures, dual-frequency T-shaped and π-shaped matching ne...

This paper analyzes the behavior of the Argentine biscuit market during 2003-06 to find out whether any important merger occurred in October 2004 (the Arcor/Bagley merger) had any discernible market power or cost reduction effects. This paper presents an econometric demand-and-supply model in which it treats the biscuits supplied by the main producers as different products. The results show tha...

In recent decades, democratic countries have signed hundreds of international environmental agreements (IEAs). Most of these are weak and do not include effective enforcement. To study this puzzle, we propose a positive theory of IEAs in which the political incumbents negotiate in the shadow of reelections. We show that incumbents are prone to negotiate treaties that are simultaneously overambi...