variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war … reduces annual growth by .01 to .13 percentage points, and high-intensity interstate conflict reduces annual growth by .18 to …

around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post-war … period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post-war … focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes …

We study a model of war in which the outcome of the war is uncertain from the perspective of the involved countries not … at any resource level. From an ex ante perspective it is therefore likely to win the war. …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the … inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite of the conclusion reached by Gartzke et al. (2001), who reject the … opportunity costs as the basis for the inverse trade-conflict relationship, thus implying that one need not rely on signaling. …

'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 …

income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other … nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

globalization and import dependency as a short-term reaction to economic turbulences and geopolitical upheaval at the onset of war …

Do individuals reveal their true preferences when asked for their support for an ongoing war? This research note … to estimate the extent of preference falsification with regard to support for the war by comparing the experimental … the war and significant levels of preference falsification: when asked directly, 71% of respondents support the war, while …

To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state … armed groups govern territories and civilians within them-that under certain circumstances may be harnessed in the post-war … the type of statebuilding and political regime trajectories that emerge in the post-war period. …