@techreport{Saito2010Chance,
abstract = {In the original framework of Professors Acemoglu and Robinson, the government is unable to oppress the revolution once it is brought about. However, actual civil wars are unpredictable. With this notion, I introduce uncertainty depending on military expenditures of the government. Then an interesting argument follows: if the likelihood of successful oppression is sufficiently larger than a certain level of destruction rate and there are cheap-but-effective devices such as biochemicals, citizens in a dictatorial country may have a trade-off between economic prosperity and domestic military threats.},
address = {Kiel},
author = {Tetsuya Saito},
copyright = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/deed.en},
keywords = {C72; H56; 330; Military expenditures; Acemoglu-Robinson model; war of attrition},
language = {eng},
number = {2010-7},
publisher = {Kiel Inst. for the World Economy},
title = {Chance of revolts and ability of oppressions: a comment on the Acemoglu-Robinson model},
type = {Economics Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30022},
year = {2010}
}

