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The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford HandbooksPublication details: Oxford University Press 2012 New YorkDescription: 874pISBN:
  • 9780195392777
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 OXF
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Part I: Introduction
1. Economic perspectives on peace and conflict / Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas

Part II: Correlates of peace and conflict
2. Informational aspects of conflict / Karl Warneryd
3. Commitment problems and shifting power as a cause of conflict / Robert Powell
4. Bargaining and conflict with incomplete information / Santiago Sanchez-Pages
5. The Hobbesian trap / Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjostrom
6. Religion, conflict and cooperation / Michael T. McBride and Gary Richardson
7. Comparing polarization measures / Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray
8. Inequality, polarization and conflict / Jose G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol
9. On the causes of civil war / Anke Hoeffler
10. Reflections on Africa's wars / Jean-Paul Azam

Part III: Consequences and costs of conflict
11. Methods for measuring aggregate costs of conflict / Javier Gardeazabal
12. How many bucks in a bang: On the estimation of the economic costs of conflict / Tilman Bruck, Olaf J. de Groot and Carlos Bozzoli
13. Estimating the costs of war: Methodological issues, with applications to Iraq and
Afghanistan / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes
14. Estimating the human costs of war: A sample survey approach / Michael Spagat
15. Mental health in the aftermath of conflict / Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
16. Measuring the economic costs of terrorism / Walter Enders and Eric Olson
17. Assessing the e_ects of military expenditure on growth / Giorgio D'Agostino, J. Paul Dunne, and Luca Pieroni
18. The economic welfare cost of conflict: An empirical assessment / S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess

Part IV: On the mechanics of conflict
19. Technologies of conflict / Hao Jia and Stergios Skaperdas
20. Endogenous formation of alliances in contests / Francis Bloch
21. Conflict with multiple battlefields / Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson
22. Laboratory experiments on conflict / Klaus Abbink

Part V: Conflict and peace in economic context
23. War, trade, and natural resources: A historical perspective / Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke
24. Trade in the shadow of power / Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas, and Constantinos Syropoulos
25. Conflict and policy in general equilibrium: Insights from a standard trade model / Ernesto Dal Bó and Pedro Dal Bo
26. The use of coercion in society: insecure property rights, conflict and economic backwardness / Francisco M. Gonzalez
27. War and poverty / Patricia Justino
28. Aggressive elites and vulnerable entrepreneurs: Trust and cooperation in the shadow
of conflict / Halvor Mehlum and Karl Moene

Part VI: Pathways to peace
29. Globalization and international conflict: Can FDI increase cooperation among nations? / Solomon W. Polachek, Carlos Seiglie, and Jun Xiang
30. National borders, conflict and peace / Enrico Spolaore
31. Political institutions and war initiation: The democratic peace hypothesis revisited / Michelle R. Garfinkel
32. Why follow the leader? Collective action, credible commitment and conflict / Philip Keefer
33. Conflict -inhibiting norms / Peter T. Leeson and Christopher J. Coyne

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