In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts … of specifications and, considering the conflict channel, we conclude there is no reason to regard resources as a general …

In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts … of specifications and, considering the conflict channel, we conclude there is no reason to regard resources as a general …

In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts … in this literature. We find that the conventional measure of resource dependence is endogenous with respect to conflict …, and that instrumenting for dependence implies that it is no longer significant in conflict regressions. Instead, it …

spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …

ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat …

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries …. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to predict the occurrence and location of conflict events on the …

contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

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 …