Margit Bussmann
University of Greifswald
38 Papers
197 Citations
Margit Bussmann is an academic researcher from University of Greifswald. The author has contributed to research in topics: Globalization & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 35 publications. Previous affiliations of Margit Bussmann include University of Konstanz.
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Papers
When Globalization Discontent Turns Violent: Foreign Economic Liberalization and Internal War
Margit Bussmann,Gerald Schneider +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the distributional theory of civil war and showed that a higher level of economic openness is associated with a lower risk of civil conflict, while economic liberalization increases the chances of instability weakly, and none of the following factors are found to exert any compensatory influence on instability: social spending, foreign aid, and financial flows from the International Monetary Fund.
The effect of trade openness on women's welfare and work life.
TL;DR: In this article, a study of 134 countries analyzes whether women are generally the losers or winners of globalization and concludes that economic integration does not directly improve women's life expectancies.
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Foreign direct investment and militarized international conflict
TL;DR: In this article, the authors test whether the liberal peace proposition holds when economic integration is operationalized as foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks, inflows, and outflows, and find that the onset of a fatal conflict reduces FDI inflows and, if tested in a two-stage instrumental variable approach, FDI stock, the most complete measure of economic integration through foreign investment.
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Modeling frequency and type of interaction in event networks
TL;DR: In this article, a general model for networks of dyadic, typed events is proposed to decompose the probability of events into two components: the first modeling the frequency of interaction and the second modeling the conditional event type, i.e., the quality of interaction, given that interaction takes place.
Foreign Economic Liberalization and Peace: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the impact of foreign economic liberalization on the social fabric of sub-Saharan African countries and conclude that economic openness durably pacifies countries once the restructuring of the economy is over.