Since 1995, growth in sub-Saharan Africa has averaged more than 5% per year reversing a two-decade decline of real … income per capita. In this paper, we explore the extent to which the nascent growth is sustainable or not due to higher … observations on 46 countries from 1968 to 2004. We explore these data with cross-sectional and panel growth regression analysis and …

Recent studies have examined the effect of political conflict and domestic terrorism on economic and political outcomes … positively to declines in violence. These findings imply that ethnic and political conflict may affect the level, direction, and … quality of invention and economic growth over time. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …

institutions, there is generally a conflict over these social choices, ultimately resolved in favor of groups with greater …. Economic institutions encouraging economic growth emerge when political institutions allocate power to groups with interests in …This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental …

This article introduces a static, within-country, game-theoretic model of litigated conflict over fundamental rights … the extent to which the litigated conflict over fundamental rights in the society is “constitutionalized” is decreased (i …

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …

In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … analytic approaches, (b) how developing ideas about conflict, predation and governance have entered into and greatly influenced …

We introduce three extensions of the Hirshleifer–Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …