-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences … unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …

Lack of growth limits poverty reduction while poverty increases conflict risk. Institutional failure and other factors … seem to cause both growth failure and civil war. The greed explanation for conflict is common in cross-country econometric … conflict onset works through other mechanisms, such as a weakening social contract and withering state capacity. The grievance …

institutions, there is generally a conflict over these social choices, ultimately resolved in favor of groups with greater …. Economic institutions encouraging economic growth emerge when political institutions allocate power to groups with interests in …

dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … panel growth regression analysis and a structural VAR model. We find that, on average, the incidence of terrorism may have … an economically significant negative effect on growth, albeit one that is considerably smaller and less persistent than …

distribution to economic growth. …

'the economic costs of mass violent conflict' by identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature. The … conflict. These models differ by complexity, ranging from standard regression analysis to computable general equilibrium models …

is typical for a macroeconomic neoclassical growth model, the aggregate impact of the conjectured shocks dissipates over …