Disasters–natural or manmade–are on the rise with far-reaching implications for
international business (IB) actors and transactions. While the Covid-19 pandemic has …

abstract Scholars in management and economics widely share the assumption that
business firms focus on profits only, while it is the task of the state system to provide public …

We identify a “proximity penalty” in the stock market response to the Russian invasion of
Ukraine: the closer countries are to Ukraine, the lower their equity returns in a four‐week …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

We examine the short-term market impact of the beginning of the military conflict between
Russia and Ukraine (February 24, 2022) on the largest European listed banks. Using an …

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on
conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 o× 0.5 o for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010 …

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is
central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research …

How do income shocks affect armed conflict? Theory suggests two opposite effects. If labour
is used to appropriate resources violently, higher wages may lower conflict by reducing …

Abstract From Angola to Iraq, wars have taken place in resource rich countries full of poor
people. Wars of Plunder explores the interplay of natural resources and armed conflicts, and …

Using a panel of 199 Chinese listed renewable energy firms from 2001 to 2018, this study is
the first to empirically explore the relationship between country risks and renewable energy …