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Natural-Resource Rents and Internal Conflicts - Can Decentralization Lift the Curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - 2013
We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292699
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Oil and Civil Conflict: On and Off (Shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Tesei, Andrea - 2017
We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 … countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries … opposite effects can be explained by a fighting capacity mechanism, whereby the government can use offshore oil income to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615901
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Mining for Peace
Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023
The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290117
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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups: Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group’s choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777612
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Spatial Diffusion of Economic Shocks in Networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018
The aggregate economic impact of any developmental project depends on its effects within the chosen administrative region as well as its economic spillovers into other regions. However, little is known about how these spillovers propagate through geographic, ethnic and road networks. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872058
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Oil Wealth and Property Rights
de Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020
We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between … 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to … different instrumental-variable approaches and operationalizations of oil wealth and economic institutions. We argue that oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227659
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Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, and climate change is predicted to intensify this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377398
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280643
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Oil Wealth and Property Rights
Soysa, Indra - 2020
We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between … 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to … different instrumental-variable approaches and operationalizations of oil wealth and economic institutions. We argue that oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832191
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Insuring Peace : Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, and climate change is predicted to intensify this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356486