success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the …

. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology … such as guns. This pattern reflects differences in the historical markets for war supplies. European patent data of 1990 …

perception of economic well-being, possibly influenced by such tactics, predicts war and peace onset. Using unique data … bracketing the onset of the Nepalese Civil War, we find that higher levels of perceived income adequacy are associated with later … war onset during periods of rebel recruitment, and with earlier peace onset in general. These results hold regardless of …

focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the …

war outcome and, above a certain size, contributes to the escalation of violence. Given the characteristics of the … makes both of them better off than war. We then identify the characteristics of the economy such that the diaspora acts as a …