the implications of the war costs themselves. Besides the unanticipated length and breadth of the military conflicts … motivations associated with war cost forecasts by comparing them with other types of aggregate forecasts, which are prone to … similar types of errors. The history of war cost forecasts suggests that increasing their frequency and transparency may …

This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO … the war on the overall performance of the economy. Even taking a conservative approach and assuming all US troops return …

belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended … convertibility of their currencies into gold with the promise that after the war each would restore convertibility at the old par …. However, once convertibility was suspended, the value of each currency depended on the outcome of the war. I decompose …

fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …

, are the most overt costs of war. They are also relatively short-lived. The costs of war borne by combatants and their … total present value of historical war costs have been absorbed by benefits distributed over the remaining life spans of …. Estimates of the value of injuries and deaths, while uncertain, suggest that the private burden of war borne by survivors …

powers, the government was able to fund the war by borrowing and levying taxes. In major wars, however, there came a point …

war-exposed children subsequently have lower height-for-age Z-scores, and impacts using GPS information are 87-188% larger … in magnitude, and children in the war instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffer more than the winning nation …

While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental …

shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by 2000. While these are important outcomes to economists, by focusing on them …