Resource Concentration and Civil Wars

Massimo Morelli () and Dominic Rohner

No 20129, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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.

JEL-codes: D74 O12 Q34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05
Note: DEV POL
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Published as Morelli, Massimo & Rohner, Dominic, 2015. "Resource concentration and civil wars," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 32-47.

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