Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the natural effect of trade.? This paper first reviews this literature and …

altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

Montesquieu in his L’Esprit des Lois, argued, “peace is the natural effect of trade.” This paper first reviews this literature and …

part of SHARE in Europe in 2009, with administrative data on food supply (caloric rations) in post-war Germany. The data …

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …

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 …

probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the …

the start of the war with those who responded shortly after the conflict began and applying difference-in-differences (DiD …) models over time, we find a significant decline in the outcome after the war started. These findings provide new evidence on … how armed conflicts influence social trust and well-being among young people in a country not directly involved in the war. …