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Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2014
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w20129
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1 Online-Ressource
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3386/w20129
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This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is identified. The theory predicts war to be more likely when resource and group concentration are high, and the empirical analysis, both at the country level and at the ethnic group level, confirms the essential role of geographic concentration variables for civil war