Is Happiness Really a Warm Gun? The Consequences of U.S. Weapons Sales for Political Violence
2016/03/29
研討會日期 : 2016-03-29
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Eik Leong Swee
主持人 : Professor Wen-Jen Tsay
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Swee received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Toronto in 2010. He is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at University of Melbourne. His primary research fields are Development Economics, Political Economics and secondary fields are Economics of Conflict, and Applied Microeconomics.
演講摘要 : We exploit exogenous shifts in the cost of purchasing commercial weapons from the U.S. to uncover the causal effect of U.S. weapons purchases on political violence. We find that weapons purchases reduce the likelihood of political repression but increase the likelihood of onset of civil war in purchasing countries. The results suggest that state investment in military capability incites civil war in countries where state repression of an aggrieved opposition would have otherwise prevailed.
