How Many Bucks in a Bang: On the Estimation of the Economic Costs of Conflict

Olaf de Groot (), Tilman Brück and Carlos Bozzoli

No 948, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of cross-country analyses for conflict costs. In addition to the existing cross-country literature, a number of studies that only concern themselves with particular elements of conflict costs are included as well. In the end, this paper combines the insights from these previous analyses to explore how much room there is to further improve the existing studies. Specific recommendations are given how to proceed with the development of the field of conflict cost measurement.

Keywords: Conflict; costs of conflict; case studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C20 F50 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 p.
Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.343319.de/dp948.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: How Many Bucks in a Bang: On the Estimation of the Economic Costs of Conflict (2009)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp948

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Bibliothek ().