We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where … review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime institutions; and on the private sector in conflict. Future … research requires new and better sources of data on conflict and conflict impacts, including from household surveys in conflict …

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

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 …

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …

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

contemporary economic growth. The negative effect of ethnic inequality is caused by increasing conflict and decreasing public goods …