The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country
American Economic Review
vol. 93,
no. 1, March 2003
(pp. 113-132)
Abstract
This article investigates the economic effects of conflict, using the terrorist conflict in the Basque Country as a case study. We find that, after the outbreak of terrorism in the late 1960's, per capita GDP in the Basque Country declined about 10 percentage points relative to a synthetic control region without terrorism. In addition, we use the 1998-1999 truce as a natural experiment. We find that stocks of firms with a significant part of their business in the Basque Country showed a positive relative performance when truce became credible, and a negative relative performance at the end of the cease-fire.Citation
Abadie, Alberto, and Javier Gardeazabal. 2003. "The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country ." American Economic Review, 93 (1): 113-132. DOI: 10.1257/000282803321455188JEL Classification
- D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances