nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then at least a portion of … the costs of conflict can be measured by a nation's lost gains from trade. The greater two nations' gains from trade the … more costly is bilateral (dyadic) conflict. This notion forms the basis of Baron de Montesquieu's assertion regarding …

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries …. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to predict the occurrence and location of conflict events on the …

its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor … to settlement. Furthermore, the sustainability of conflict resolution appears to be unrelated to the amount and … composition of post-conflict aid. These findings, though based on a limited number of post-conflict episodes, underscore concerns …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …

We provide new evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. To do so, we combine … of opium profitability on conflict in Afghanistan. District level results indicate a conflict-reducing effect over the … two main mechanisms. First, the importance of contest effects depends on the degree of violent group competition over …

We experimentally study how economic prospects and power shifts affect the risk of conflict through a dynamic power … economic prospects. We find that conflict rates are highest when economic prospects decline and lowest when they improve. A … behavioral model incorporating psychological costs and reciprocity can explain these differences. A survey on U …