Angesichts zunehmender geopolitischer Spannungen rücken die wirtschaftlichen Folgen und Kosten von Kriegen auf die Weltwirtschaft verstärkt in den Fokus. In Ihrem Kiel Policy Brief untersuchen die Autoren die Kosten von mehr als 150 Kriegen seit 1870. Alleine auf den unmittelbaren...

In an integrated global economy, the economic fallout of war is not confined to the country where the conflict is fought but spills over to other countries. We study the economic effects of large interstate wars using a new data set spanning 150 years of data for more than 60 countries. War on a...

In an integrated global economy, the economic fallout of war is not confined to the country where the conflict is fought but spills over to other countries. We study the economic effects of large interstate wars using a new data set spanning 150 years of data for more than 60 countries. War on a...

This paper introduces a data-driven, transparent and unbiased method to calculate the economic costs of the Brexit vote in June 2016. We let a matching algorithm determine a combination of comparison economies that best resembles the growth path of the UK economy before the Brexit referendum....