findings of the civil conflict literature that oil abundance causes civil war. Using a unique panel dataset describing …

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual data … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …

significantly impact their predicated level of happiness. This result can be attributed to two main issues. First, in conflict …

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 …