| ID | 146508 |
| Title Proper | Conflict dynamics and costs in the Greek Civil War 1946–1949 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Christodoulakis, Nicos |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Using a new set of data from Greek Army sources, US military archives, and Communist Party documents, the paper provides a quantitative analysis of the armed confrontation that took place in Greece during 1946–1949. A dynamic Lotka–Volterra model is estimated, pointing to the existence of a conflict trap that explains the prolongation of the civil war and its dire consequences for the country. A regional analysis finds that the mobilization of guerrilla forces was crucially affected by morphology and the local persecutions of political rivals. Using neoclassical growth-accounting, the economic cost of the conflict is estimated to surpass an annual GDP, in line with similar findings in contemporary civil wars. The same framework is employed to assess the outcome in counterfactual situations discussed in this paper. |
| `In' analytical Note | Defence and Peace Economics Vol. 27, No.5; Oct 2016: p.688-717 |
| Journal Source | Defence and Peace Economics Vol: 27 No 5 |
| Key Words | Greece ; Production Function ; Civil War ; Equilibrium and Stability Conditions |