The Columbian Exchange and Conflict in Asia

Dincecco, Mark; Fenske, James; Menon, Anil

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“…Iyigun et al (2019) show that the introduction of the white potato from the Americas reduced conflict for two centuries in Europe. Dincecco et al (2022) also study the introduction of New World crops after 1500 and the consequent productivity shock, but find that greater caloric suitability due to the Columbian Exchange significantly increased conflict in Asia, consistent with a rapacity effect. This paper contributes to the literature on trade liberalization, economic conditions, and political violence in several ways.…”

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Trade liberalization, economic activity and political violence in the Global South: evidence from PTAs

Amodio,

Baccini,

Chiovelli

et al. 2024

Economic Policy

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This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995 and 2013. We exploit the implied reduction in agricultural tariffs over time combined with variation within countries in their suitability to produce liberalized crops to find that economic activity increases differentially in affected areas. We also find strong positive effects on political violence, and present evidence consistent with both producer- and consumer-side mechanisms: violence increases differentially in more urbanized areas that are suitable to produce less labor-intensive crops as well as crops that are consumed locally. Our estimates imply that economic activity and political violence would have been around 2% and 7% lower, respectively, across countries in our sample had the PTAs not been signed.

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Trade liberalization, economic activity and political violence in the Global South: evidence from PTAs

Amodio,

Baccini,

Chiovelli

et al. 2024

Economic Policy

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“…Researchers using historical battle and conflict data often take an interest in the link between agricultural productivity and conflict (see, e.g., Dincecco et al, 2021;Iyigun et al, 2017;Jia, 2014). We rather examine how battle locations depend on geography and the capitals of the belligerents.…”

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Cities, Conflict, and Corridors

Kitamura¹,

Lagerlöf²

2021

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In this paper we propose that state structure in European history is linked to how geography affects the effective distance between state capitals. First we document that military battles tend to occur close to the shortest-distance corridors between the capitals of the belligerent powers, *except* where that corridor is intercepted by certain types of geography, specifically seas, mountains, and marshes. Geography thus seems to have influenced the effective military distance between the belligerents’ capitals. Then we explore similar corridors between a multitude of European cities, documenting two patterns: (1) state capitals tend to be closer to each other when the geography between them is more separating, as measured by similar types of geography found to affect battle locations; (2) controlling for distance, the likelihood that any two cities are located in the same state decreases with the same types of geography between them. We present a model consistent with these patterns.

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“…Our paper contributes to several strands of the economics literature. First, we contribute to the literature on historical determinants of social unrest and conflict (e.g., Acemoglu et al, 2020;Arbatli et al, 2020;Guardado, 2018;Michalopoulos and Papaioannou, 2016;Besley and Reynal-Querol, 2014;Esteban et al, 2012;Dincecco et al 2021;Cao et al 2020;McGuirk and Nunn, 2020;Depetris-Chauvin and Ozak, 2020;Iyigun et al 2017).…”

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The Legacy of the Spanish Conquista in the Andes: Mining Mita, Persistent Social Unrest, and Cultural Divergence

Huaroto¹,

Gallego²

2023

Preprint

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The Columbian Exchange and Conflict in Asia

Abstract: The version presented here is a Working Paper (or 'pre-print') that may be later published elsewhere.

Cited by 4 publications

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Trade liberalization, economic activity and political violence in the Global South: evidence from PTAs

Trade liberalization, economic activity and political violence in the Global South: evidence from PTAs

Cities, Conflict, and Corridors

The Legacy of the Spanish Conquista in the Andes: Mining Mita, Persistent Social Unrest, and Cultural Divergence

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