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International commodity prices, growth and the outbreak of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brückner, Markus; Ciccone, Antonio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007
To learn more about the effect of economic conditions on civil war, we examine whether Sub-Saharan civil wars are more likely to start following downturns in the international price of countries’ main export commodities. The data show a robust effect of commodity price downturns on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772194
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Economic shocks and civil conflict: A comment
Ciccone, Antonio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
rainfall growth between t-1 and t-2. I argue that this finding is driven by a positive correlation between conflict in t and …Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti (2004) argue that lower rainfall levels and negative rainfall shocks increase conflict … rainfall levels in t-2. If lower rainfall levels or negative rainfall shocks increased conflict, one might have expected MSS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572606
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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010
used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it measures the accumulation of water in the soil in taking into … through economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747636
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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphaël - 2010
used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it measures the accumulation of water in the soil in taking into … through economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276789
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Population size, per capita income, and the risk of civil war : regional heterogeneity in the structural relationship matters
Brückner, Markus - 2011
A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This paper shows that the common finding of population size and per capita income having a significant average effect on civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903415
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Growth, Democracy, and Civil War
Ciccone, Antonio; Bruckner, Markus - 2009
Does economic growth affect the likelihood of civil war? Answering this question requires dealing with reverse … causation. Our approach exploits that international commodity prices have a significant effect on the income growth of Sub …-Saharan African countries. We show that lower income growth makes civil war more likely in non-democracies. This effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222873
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Drought and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2013
used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it measures the accumulation of water in the soil in taking into … through economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187497
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Rain, growth, and civil war : the importance of location
Jensen, Peter Sandholt; Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede - In: Defence and peace economics 20 (2009) 5, pp. 359-372
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902497
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Economic shocks & civil conflict onset in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1981 - 2010
Weezel, Stijn van - In: Defence and peace economics 26 (2015) 2, pp. 153-177
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349463
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Population size, per capita income, and the risk of civil war: Regional heterogeneity in the structural relationship matters
Brückner, Markus - 2011
A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This paper shows that the common finding of population size and per capita income having a significant average effect on civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280067