Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: The Case of Large Floods

Ramesh Ghimire () and Susana Ferreira

No 142587, 2013 Annual Meeting, February 2-5, 2013, Orlando, Florida from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: We investigate the impact of large floods on the risk of civil conflict in a sample of 125 countries between 1985 and 2009. We control for endogeneity of floods and the potential spatial and temporal dependency of civil conflict. We find that floods increase the probability of conflict incidence through a negative impact on short-run GDP growth.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; International Development; Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.142587

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