This chapter introduces the author's selected papers on the economics of coercion and conflict. It defines coercion and … conflict and relates them. In conflict, adversaries make costly investments in the means of coercion. The application of … coercion does not remove choice but limits it to options that leave the victim worse off than before. Coercion and conflict are …

Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022. As a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, multiple international sanctions were imposed on …This paper explores the global economic consequence of the Russian-Ukraine war in the month of invasion. Russia invaded … Russia to compel Russia to de-escalate the crisis. The sanctions imposed on Russia, although intended to hurt Russia, had …

Russian invasion of Ukraine have significantly impacted Gold market dynamics. Inflation significantly impacts volatility …

the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over … the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the short-term causal effects of the Donbass war on Ukraine's GDP. Results … from the counterfactual estimation by the synthetic control method show that Ukraine's per capita GDP foregone due to the …

We use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of international banking and energy sanctions from 2012 to … Iran before the international sanctions of 2012. We then compare the military spending of the counterfactual Iran without …

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