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Does credit availability mitigate domestic conflict? (2022)
Journal Article
Bhattacharya, P. S., Chowdhury, P. R., & Rahman, H. (2023). Does credit availability mitigate domestic conflict?. Economic Modelling, 119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.106105

This paper establishes that lack of credit is one of the root causes of conflict; with credit being scarce, productive endeavours are less attractive and conflict-led activities more appealing at the margin. Our investigation contributes to the liter... Read More about Does credit availability mitigate domestic conflict?.

“Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments (2022)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. H., Anbarci, N., & Ulubaşoğlu, M. A. (2022). “Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments. Journal of Development Economics, 159, Article 102982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102982

We exploit the exogenous variation in the timing and intensity of storms in island countries to estimate the storms' effect on the extent of democracy. Using a rich panel dataset spanning the period 1950–2020, our difference-in-differences estimation... Read More about “Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments.