Commodity Shocks, Factor Intensity and Conflicts in Africa

dc.contributor.authorGantier, Marcelo
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-11T18:30:10Z
dc.date.available2021-02-11T18:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-20
dc.description.abstractNatural resources are often related to conflicts. The Dal Bo & Dal B ´ o´ (2011) theory states that income shocks affect capital- and labor-intensive sectors differently. Using sub-national cells covering the African continent for 1997-2010, I find that conflicts react differently to positive commodity price shocks depending on their factor intensity. The results show that a positive shock in the capital-intensive mining sector increases conflict likelihood, whereas a positive shock in the labor-intensive agricultural sector reduces it. These impacts are higher for sub-Saharan Africa. When testing heterogeneous effects for the degree of commodity appropriability, historical African-specific factors, and quality of institutions, I find that easily taxed crops behave differently to an increase in international crop prices. In the same vein, I find that neither historical African-specific factors nor the quality of institutions seem to induce differential responses in conflicts to commodity price shocks.es_ES
dc.identifier.otherO130, Q320, Q340, D740
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.ucb.edu.bo/handle/20.500.12771/384
dc.language.isoenes_ES
dc.publisherUniversidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo". IISEC.es_ES
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDocumento de Trabajo IISEC-UCB;N° 05/2020
dc.subjectRecursos Naturaleses_ES
dc.subjectConflictoses_ES
dc.subjectCommodity Shockses_ES
dc.titleCommodity Shocks, Factor Intensity and Conflicts in Africaes_ES
dc.typeWorking Paperes_ES

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