To learn more about the effect of economic conditions on civil war, we examine whether Sub-Saharan civil wars are more likely to start following downturns in the international price of countries’ main export commodities. The data show a robust effect of commodity price downturns on the outbreak of civil wars. We also find that Sub-Saharan countries are more likely to see civil wars following ec...

This paper investigates the growth dynamics of the bank sectors in the OECD area over the period 1985-1994 and examines whether the structural financial reforms of the late 1980s have affected their growth path. Based on a test of Gibrat’s law of proportionate effect, we find that the 1985-89 period was characterised by size convergence, implying that smaller bank sectors were expanding more ra...

The development of integrated care and services networks (ICSN) in OECD countries has generated an extensive body of literature on organizational conditions that support integrated care, investigations that have spanned over a decade. However, a small number of investigators have only recently begun to take a closer look at the importance of the role played by professionals in these reorganizat...