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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: Economic Analysis of Conflicts
    sub title: With an Application to the Greek Civil War 1946-1949
  name:
    name part: Christodoulakis, Nicos.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 160 p. 25 illus., 23 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides a quantitative framework for the analysis of conflict dynamics and for estimating the economic costs associated with civil wars. The author develops modified Lotka-Volterra equations to model conflict dynamics, to yield realistic representations of battle processes, and to allow us to assess prolonged conflict traps. The economic costs of civil wars are evaluated with the help of two alternative methods: Firstly, the author employs a production function to determine how the destruction of human and physical capital stocks undermines economic growth in the medium term. Secondly, he develops a synthetic control approach, where the cost is obtained as the divergence of actual economic activity from a hypothetical path in the absence of civil war. The difference between the two approaches gives an indication of the adverse externalities impinging upon the economy in the form of institutional destruction. By using detailed time-series regarding battle casualties, local socio-economic indicators, and capital stock destruction during the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), a full-scale application of the above framework is presented and discussed.
  table of contents: Preface -- 1 Introduction: Economic Analysis and Civil Wars -- 2 The Greek Civil War 1946-1949: Main Events and Data -- 3 Static Models of Conflict -- 4 Models of Repression and Inclusion -- 5 Dynamic Models of Conflict -- 6 Estimation of Conflict Dynamics -- 7 A Model of Intertemporal Conflict -- 8 The Economic Impact of Civil Wars: A Production Function Approach -- 9 The Comparative Economic Cost of Civil Wars -- 10 A Critical Appraisal -- 11 Data Appendix: Data Sources and Definitions.
  note: by Nicos Christodoulakis.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Ergodic theory
  subject:
    topic: Economic theory
  subject:
    topic: Economic growth
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
  subject:
    topic: Economic Growth
  classification: HB1-846.8
  classification: 330.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319322612
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32261-2
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