-peaceful world. But how much would individual be willing to pay to avoid just the economic costs of conflict? Remarkably, even these … only the material, economic welfare costs of conflict stemming from the altered path of consumption resulting from conflict … pure economic welfare losses from conflict are quite large. I find that, on average, individuals who live in a country that …

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, hereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual data … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. -- conflict ; genetic distance ; common issues ; rival …

subnational regions). Conflict is measured by the incidence of civil war (UCDP/PRIO data) and a risk measure of internal conflict … well as OLS fixed effects panel regressions. I find that regional inequalities increase the risk of internal conflict. …

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

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 …

from the Rose [2004] dataset, the ITERATE dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We … of terrorism, as well as internal and external conflict is equivalent to as much as a 30 percent tariff on trade. This is …

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

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 …