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Armed Groups in Conflict : Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan

Gassebner, Martin - 2020

This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...

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Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict

Gehring, Kai - 2019

We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal variation in international drug prices with spatial variation in the suitability to produce opium, we show that higher drug prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in...

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COVID-19 Fatalities and Internal Conflict : Does Government Economic Support Matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2021

In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...

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Extraterritorial Trade Sanctions : Theory and Application to the US-Iran-EU Conflict

Janeba, Eckhard - 2022

, but ii) emerge if a second activity (“sponsor international terrorism”) is not verifiable, and the sanctioning countries …

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The Effect of Corruption on Internal Conflict in Iran Using Newspaper Coverage

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and variance decomposition analyses to track the response of...

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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...

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War and Entrepreneurship : A Synthetic Control Study of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Audretsch, David B.; Momtaz, Paul P.; Motuzenko, Hanna; … - 2023

Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind spot in entrepreneurship scholarship. As a first step to closing this gap, we offer a well-identified synthetic control study of entrepreneurial dynamics in the Russo-Ukrainian...

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Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2022

Typically, economics assumes that property rights over productive resources or goods are perfectly defined and 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...

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Weapons of Choice

Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015

goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that …

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Terror Per Capita

Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per … capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show … terror per capita. A larger share of Muslims in society is, if anything, associated with less terrorism. Similar conclusions …

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