@article{ref1,
title="Butter, guns and ice-cream theory and evidence from sub-saharan africa",
journal="Defence and peace economics",
year="2010",
author="Caruso, Raul",
volume="21",
number="3",
pages="269-283",
abstract="This paper is intended to complement the existing literature on civil wars. First, it presents a simple theoretical model of conflict that defines a two-sector economy. In a contested sector, two agents struggle to appropriate the maximum possible fraction of a contestable output. In an uncontested sector, they hold secure property rights over the production of some goods. Agents split their resource endowment between 'butter', 'guns' and 'ice-cream'. Following the theoretical insights the empirical analysis focuses on the relationship between civil wars and different sectors of the economy. In particular, a panel probit specification shows that the incidence of a civil war decreases in the size of manufacturing sector.<p />",
language="",
issn="1024-2694",
doi="10.1080/10242690903568975",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690903568975"
}