How Many Bucks in a Bang: On the Estimation of the Economic Costs of Conflict

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brück, Tilman ^a,b,c   De Groot, Olaf J ^a   Bozzoli, Carlos ^a  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Households in Conflict Network (HiCN)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict cost analysis; Conflict costs; Military expenditures; Sri lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889577770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392777.013.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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