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 …

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 …

policy measures for geopolitical purposes are discussed below. On the basis of Russia's war of aggression, the West can …

within war zones. Interestingly, countries geographically close to war zones experience significant economic disruptions …

the twentieth century were dominated by the international gold standard. But as a result of World War I, this system was … replaced by the troubled gold exchange standards of the 1920s and 1930s. As a result of World War II the interwar system was … replaced in turn by the Bretton Woods system. And as a result of inflation of the late 1960s, produced in part by America's war …

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 …

focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …

COW and the UCDP/PRIO for conflicts and the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators for socioeconomic data …

To cover fully the economics of war would require encyclopedia unto itself. Here I will provide brief introductions to … four questions: (1) to what extent did economic forces cause America's wars, (2) after going to war, how has the United …) what have been the economic legacies of the war. …