This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind … study of entrepreneurial dynamics in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Relative to the synthetic counterfactual, Ukraine's number of … way for systematic scholarship on "war and entrepreneurship," our study proposes a conceptual framework integrating …

highlights the drivers of Russia's recent investment boom. During 2022, the first year of the full-blown war in Ukraine …, investment growth was dominated by increased budget spending, war-related investment in construction of transport and warehouse … to firms funding investment out of pocket and manufacturing, particularly firms involved in war-related or resource …