In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …

This paper analyses the fiscal effects of armed conflict and terrorism on low- and middle-income countries. An analysis … of 22 conflict episodes shows that armed conflict is associated with lower growth and higher inflation and has adverse … estimates are consistent with the hypothesis that conflict and terrorism have a significant negative impact on growth through …

only the material, economic welfare costs of conflict stemming from the altered path of consumption resulting from conflict …-peaceful world. But how much would individual be willing to pay to avoid just the economic costs of conflict? Remarkably, even these … pure economic welfare losses from conflict are quite large. I find that, on average, individuals who live in a country that …

contemporary economic growth. The negative effect of ethnic inequality is caused by increasing conflict and decreasing public goods …

data as measured by orbital satellites and conflict data spatially mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates. Using a … fighting declines significantly once a conflict begins; neighboring countries also experience large negative effects. The …

dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …