Resource Concentration and Civil Wars

Massimo Morelli () and Dominic Rohner

Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie from Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie

Abstract: This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is identified. The theory predicts war to be more likely when resource and group concentration are high, and the empirical analysis, both at the country level and at the ethnic group level, confirms the essential role of geographic concentration variables for civil war.

Keywords: Natural Resources; Civil War; Conflict; Secession; Bargaining Failure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D74 Q34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pp.
Date: 2013-05
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Journal Article: Resource concentration and civil wars (2015)
Working Paper: Resource Concentration and Civil Wars (2014)
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