We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption, political instability and economic growth. We … of the Arab Spring, as an exogenous shock, to measure the short-term effects of political shocks on corruption levels …

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, whereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to …

Property rights, whose security is often threatened by civil conflict, are a necessary condition for the establishment …