Conflict and Production: An Application to Natural Resources

Konferenzbeitrag

We present a Stackelberg model of conflict, in which contestants have limited endowments to be put in two separate sectors, thus incorporating salient features of many conflicts. The model is applied to the case of conflict over natural resources. Consistent with amounting empirical evidence regarding a so-called "resource curse", we find that the relation between conflict intensity and resource rents is non-monotonous, and that the economy's income growth rate may be negatively affected by resource abundance.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 ; No. 34

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products ; Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development ; Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
• Subject: Resource curse ; exhaustible resources ; civil war ; economic performance and resources

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wick, Katharina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19886
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET