Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after … conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset …. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines in official trade, with exports (imports) estimated to be 58 (34) percent …

We present a Stackelberg model of conflict, in which contestants have limited endowments to be put in two separate … sectors, thus incorporating salient features of many conflicts. The model is applied to the case of conflict over natural … between conflict intensity and resource rents is non-monotonous, and that the economy's income growth rate may be negatively …

Social conflict and slow growth are features of many developing economies. This paper considers the role institutions … of property rights and conflict management can play in both achieving prosperity and mitigating conflict in these … economies. We study how introducing conflict over economic distribution into an otherwise standard model of growth can shape …