Microeconomic modelling offers a powerful formal toolbox for analysing the complexities of
real-world intergroup relations and conflicts. One important class of models scrutinizes …

Wars impose tremendous costs on societies and the question of how to end them is of
foremost importance. Several hundred books and scientific articles have been written on …

In this article, we propose a framework to tackle conflict prevention, an issue which has
received interest in several policy areas. A key challenge of conflict forecasting for …

Does democracy curb domestic political violence? To study this, we focus on the United
Kingdom's Representation of the People Act of 1867—which is a critical juncture in the …

We provide evidence that violence reduces the adoption and use of mobile money in three
separate empirical settings in Afghanistan. First, analyzing nationwide mobile money …

Conflict undermines development, while adverse economic shocks, in turn, can increase
conflict risk. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could attenuate conflict risk by …

How do severe shocks such as war alter the economy? We study how a country's production
network is affected by a devastating but localized conflict. Using unique transaction-level …

Globalization is routinely blamed for various ills, including fueling conflict in strategic
locations. To investigate whether these accusations are well founded, we have built a …

A novel approach is presented for estimating the economic costs of conflict, in which the
production network serves a first-order mechanism through which the disruptive effect of …

Adverse health conditions and social conflict constitute major impediments for developing
countries. The potential for reducing social conflict by successful public health interventions …