Economic Analysis of Conflicts

Nicos Christodoulakis, is Professor of Economic Analysis at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Research Associate with the Hellenic Observatory at the London School of Economics. In 2002-2003, he was Minister of Finance in Greece and acting Chairman of the Eurogroup. He has written extensively on growth and economic policy - and on the Greek and the Eurozone crisis in particular. His last book "How Crises shaped Economic Ideas and Policies: Wiser after the events?” has been published with Springer.

• 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.

“A highly original and informative book, making a substantive contribution both to the quantitative documentation and the theoretical analysis of civil wars … . the book is of great interest to every economist and historian who wants to learn about the theoretical and empirical analysis of civil wars and have a fresh and objective birds-eye view on the Greek Civil War.” (Michel S. Zouboulakis, Defence and Peace Economics, Vol. 29 (3), 2018)