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This paper investigates the effect of conflict on firms' output value and input misallocation in the context of … over time across districts experiencing differential changes in conflict intensity. We show how conflict diminishes the … domestically produced materials for imported ones. We also empirically identify the relative amount of conflict-induced input …
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Conflict is either caused by, or brings about, drastic changes in the underlying social relationships between members … of a community involved in the conflict. The conflict literature has taken note, and a growing number of studies attempt … to determine the relationship between conflict and social capital. Unfortunately, there are many problems that have …
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This paper analyses the relationship between redistributive policies and civil unrest. This relationship is modelled in a discrete two-period recursive model. Key theoretical assumptions and outcomes are tested empirically using data for a panel of 14 major Indian states between 1973 and 2000....
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Social tensions impede social cohesion and public goods provision. They can also be a driving force for more serious conflicts such as civil wars. Surprisingly, however, the emergence of social tensions has only rarely been studied in the literature. In the present contribution a game-theoretic...
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households in the conflict affected regions. In those regions, wealthier households do not reduce allocation to low-risk low … by conflict. …
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conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is … identified. The theory predicts conflict to be more likely when the geographical distribution of natural resources is uneven and … when a minority group has better chances to win a secessionist rather than a centrist conflict. For sharing rents, resource …
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This paper provides a thorough economic evaluation of the anti-drug policies implemented in Colombia between 2000 and 2006 under the so-called Plan Colombia. The paper develops a game theory model of the war against illegal drugs in producer countries. We explicitly model illegal drug markets,...
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post …-war period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post …
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