War or conflict is an activity of aggression and violence with weapons and new technologies for resolving internal and … of war is difficult to create because of manifold factors engaged in triggering conflicts over time and space. This study … populations that can lead to war …

to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …

War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture …

in times of war – i.e., men …

, policy variables). If the bulk of fluctuations during war episodes can be explained by the rise in government spending in the …

generalized TFP shocks capturing standard technological factors as well as the potential effects of war on the labor force. The … model is estimated and used (i) to assess the importance of depreciation shocks during war episodes, and (ii) to quantify … of countries that have experienced large war-related destruction, and that the welfare losses from fluctuations can be …

War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture …

have reduced appetites for war far below their current level. This view is clearly incomplete: at best, confounding factors … are at work. Here, we explore the capacity to wage war. Most fundamentally, the growing number of sovereign states has … willingness to go to war, conditional on the national capacity to do so. But the same factors may also have been increasing the …

is on the interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment …. We show that a key parameter determining the incentives for war is the elasticity of demand. Our first result identifies … a novel externality that can precipitate war: price-taking firms fail to internalize the impact of their extraction on …

interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of … our theory. We show that a key parameter determining the incentives for war is the elasticity of demand. Our first result … identifies a novel externality that can precipitate war: price-taking firms fail to internalize the impact of their extraction on …