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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa

Berman, Nicolas - 2015

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a positive impact of mining on conflict at the local level....

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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups : Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict

Jetter, Michael - 2018

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 … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

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The Costs of Organized Violence : A Review of the Evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2021

), terrorism, and external conflicts, including military spending. There are a number of key theoretical concerns on what counts as …

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Malaria Risk and Civil Violence

Cervellati, Matteo - 2017

Using high-resolution data from Africa over the period 1998-2012, this paper investigates the hypothesis that a higher exposure to malaria increases the incidence of civil violence. The analysis uses panel data at the 1o grid cell level at monthly frequency. The econometric identification...

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National Borders, Conflict and Peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...

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Regional Inequality and Internal Conflict

Lessmann, Christian - 2013

(war, terrorism, and riots) provided by the PRS Group's International Country Risk Guide. Logit estimations are employed as …

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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil - 2015

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members' efforts, and...

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Democracy and International Conflict

Vesperoni, Alberto - 2016

During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...

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Opium for the Masses? Conflict-Induced Narcotics Production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori - 2013

We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...

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Cyber Technology and Arms Race

Kanniainen, Vesa - 2017

Cyber technology represents digital military capability with the purpose of causing damage to the military strength and the social infrastructure of a potential enemy. War using conventional weapons may be preceded by or combined with a war using cyber technology. This paper introduces such...

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