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Terrorism in Africa and South Asia: Economic or Existential Good?
Elu, Juliet U. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 1, pp. 345-358
This paper considers the extent to which terrorism in Africa and South Asia is an economic good that can be explained within a standard rational choice model of optimizing agent, or an existential good explained by individuals who are present-aim oriented. Such a consideration is important for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096485
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Terrorism in Africa and South Asia: Economic or Existential Good?
Elu, Juliet U. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 1, pp. 345-357
This paper considers the extent to which terrorism in Africa and South Asia is an economic good that can be explained within a standard rational choice model of optimizing agent, or an existential good explained by individuals who are present-aim oriented. Such a consideration is important for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097038
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Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304156
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Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322535
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Rainfall inequality, political power, and ethnic conflict in Africa
Guariso, Andrea; Rogall, Thorsten - 2017
Does higher resource inequality between ethnic groups lead to ethnic conflict? In this paper, we empirically … increases the risk of ethnic conflict by 16 percentage points (or 0.43 standard deviations). This relationship depends on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759091
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This mine is mine! : how minerals fuel conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2015 - First version: July 2014, This version: June 16, 2015
We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283825
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Networks in Conflict : Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa
König, Michael - 2016
the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … conflict. We postulate a Tullock contest success function augmented by an externality: each group's strength is increased by … efforts. We then perform an empirical analysis using data on the Second CongoWar, a conflict that involves many groups in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002623
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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306383
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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294782
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Rainfall inequality, political power, and ethnic conflict in Africa
Guariso, Andrea; Rogall, Thorsten - 2017
Does higher resource inequality between ethnic groups lead to ethnic conflict? In this paper, we empirically … increases the risk of ethnic conflict by 16 percentage points (or 0.43 standard deviations). This relationship depends on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623330