Bove, Vincenzo; Elia, Leandro - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2011
This paper addresses the relationship between the level of violence and the opium market in Afghanistan’s provinces. We … nexus opium-insurgency activities using monthly time-series data on opium prices and the number of security incidents for 15 …-induced reduction in opium prices, while the reverse opium-violence mechanism is mostly negligible. Moreover, unobservable common …