We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …

Many scholars see corruption as the main reason behind the poor development performance of many resource-rich economies … public revenues. Resource windfalls can crowd out tax revenues and pave the way for corruption within public sector. A …

Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after … conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset …. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines in official trade, with exports (imports) estimated to be 58 (34) percent …

-peaceful world. But how much would individual be willing to pay to avoid just the economic costs of conflict? Remarkably, even these … only the material, economic welfare costs of conflict stemming from the altered path of consumption resulting from conflict … pure economic welfare losses from conflict are quite large. I find that, on average, individuals who live in a country that …