Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: The Case of Large Floods
Ghimire, Ramesh; Ferreira, Susana
2013

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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.

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Title Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: The Case of Large Floods
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Author(s) Ghimire, Ramesh
Ferreira, Susana
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Issue Date 2013
Publication Type Conference Paper/ Presentation
DOI and Other Identifiers 10.22004/ag.econ.142587
Record Identifier https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/142587
PURL Identifier http://purl.umn.edu/142587
Language English
Total Pages 20
JEL Codes O57
Q34
Q54
Record Appears in Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) > 2013 Annual Meeting, February 2-5, 2013, Orlando, Florida

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