The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
Francesco Caselli,
Massimo Morelli () and
Dominic Rohner
No 9440, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
Abstract:
We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when at least one country has natural resources; when the resources in the resource-endowed country are closer to the border; and, in the case where both countries have natural resources, when the resources are located asymmetrically vis-a-vis the border. We test these predictions on a novel dataset featuring oilfield distances from bilateral borders. The empirical analysis shows that the presence and location of oil are significant and quantitatively important predictors of inter-State conflicts after WW2.
Keywords: Natural resources; Oil; War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-04
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)
Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP9440 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org
Related works:
Journal Article: The Geography of Interstate Resource Wars (2015) 
Working Paper: The geography of interstate resource wars (2015) 
Working Paper: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars (2013) 
Working Paper: The geography of inter-state resource wars (2013) 
Working Paper: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars (2013) 
Working Paper: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars (2013) 
Working Paper: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars (2013) 
Working Paper: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars (2012) 
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:cpr:ceprdp:9440
Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP9440
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().