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How many bucks in a bang: on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict
de Groot, Olaf J.; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009
The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to … give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict … costs and second by looking at the existing body of cross-country analyses for conflict costs. In addition to the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291777
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Violent conflict and inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271373
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Measuring ethno-linguistic affinity between nations
de Groot, Olaf J. - 2009
Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273791
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Terrorism and trade
Nitsch, Volker; Schumacher, Dieter - 2003
This paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260671
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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development
Lessmann, Christian - 2017
spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962986
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Diasporas
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009
Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living in an another one) affect the size and human-capital structure of current migration flows. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763995