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Economic shocks, civil war and ethnicity
Janus, Thorsten - In: Journal of development economics 115 (2015), pp. 32-44
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Stimulant or depressant? : resource-related income shocks and conflict
Gehring, Kai; Langlotz, Sarah; Kienberger, Stefan - 2018
We provide new evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. To do so, we combine temporal variation in international drug prices with new data on spatial variation in opium suitability to examine the effect of opium profitability on conflict in Afghanistan....
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The impact of social heterogeneity and commodity price shocks on civil conflicts
Giménez-Gómez, José-Manuel; Zergawu, Yitagesu-Zewdu - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 40 (2018) 5, pp. 959-997
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External shocks, internal shots: the geography of civil conflicts
Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu - 2012
external demand shocks faced by the country or the regions within countries - changes in the world demand of agricultural …-level, we cannot detect any significant effect of these shock on conflict incidence or onset; but (iv) large and longlasting … conflict onset at the country-level. -- conflict ; income shock ; civil war …
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The effects of wartime institutions on households' ability to cope with shocks : evidence for Colombia
Ibáñez, Ana María; Arteaga, Julián; Cárdenas … - 2019
This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope with negative income shocks. Rebelocracy is the social order established by non-state armed actors in the communities they control. By providing public goods and a predictable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129665
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Commodity shocks, factor intensity and conflicts in Africa
Gantier Mita, Marcelo - 2020
show that a positive shock in the capital-intensive mining sector increases conflict likelihood, whereas a positive shock …
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Climate Shocks and Domestic Conflicts in Africa
Diallo, Yoro; Tapsoba, Rene - 2022
This paper analyzes the interlinkages between climate shocks, domestic conflicts, and policy resilience in Africa. It builds on a Correlated Random Effect model to asess these interrelationships on a broad sample of 51 African countries over the 1990-2018 period. We find suggestive evidence that...
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Agricultural Shocks and Riots : A Disaggregated Analysis
Almer, Christian - 2014
Every year, riots cause a substantial number of fatalities in less-advanced countries. This paper explores the role of agricultural output shocks in explaining riots. Our theory predicts a negative relationship between the level of rioting and the deviation of the actual output from the average...
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Economic Shocks and Rebel Tactics : Evidence from Colombia
Wright, Austin L. - 2015
Why do rebels vary their tactics? Some insurgents employ terrorism and hit-and run attacks; others wage conventional wars against state rivals. Although recent scholarship studies how the technologies of rebellion differ across insurgencies, we have few explanations for why rebel tactics vary...
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Crime and the Economy in Mexican States : Heterogeneous Panel Estimates (1993-2012)
Verdugo Yepes, Concepción - 2015
This paper studies the transmission of crime shocks to the economy in a sample of 32 Mexican states over the period from 1993 to 2012. The paper uses a panel structural VAR approach which accounts for the heterogeneity of the dynamic state level responses in GDP, FDI and international migration...
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