We develop a screening model to analyse the funding allocation criteria of institutional donors towards NGOs. The model … shows that when donors care about efficiency, they screen NGOs and concentrate their funding on those that comply. Combining … two waves, 2002 and 2008, of a unique survey data set of 412 NGOs in Uganda we show that local donors do not implement …

We consider a differential game of a conflict between two factions who both have a desire to exact revenge. We show …-Palestinian conflict. We also discuss the implications of revenge-dependent preferences for welfare economics and their strategic value as …

We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal … prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in Afghanistan. There are two main mechanisms. First, household living …

In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the … COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively associated with internal conflict in countries with lower levels of … countries, the estimation results demonstrate that the positive effect of COVID-19 fatality rates on internal conflict may …

from abandoning the international economic order. In the context of the US-Iran-EU conflict, I argue that the oil and gas …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption …

conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …

Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind … of the start of the conflict. In contrast, Russia had lost more than 1.4 million SMEs (42%) five years into the conflict … conflict into the theory of entrepreneurial choice and suggests numerous avenues for future research …

costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In … this paper, we examine how international trade regimes affect the costs of conflict and, in turn, how the desirability of … international trade is affected by these costs. We consider both domestic and international conflict. Trade openness reduces the …