Anke Hoeffler

Publications and Work in Progress

 

Journal Articles

 

The State of Democracy in Africa (with Robert H Bates and Ghada Fayad) 2012, International Area Studies Review 15: 323-338.

 

The New Institutionalism and Africa (with Robert H Bates, Stephen A. Block and Ghada Fayad) 2012, Journal of African Economies, online publication.

 

‘Greed’ versus ‘Grievance’: A Useful Conceptual Distinction in the Study of Civil War? 2011. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 11(2): 274–285.

 

Need, Merit or Self-Interest – What Determines the Allocation of Aid? (with Verity Outram) 2011, in Review of Development Economics 15(2): 237-250.

Paradise Lost: The Cost of State Failure in the Pacific, (with Lisa Chauvet and Paul Collier) 2010. Understanding Small-Island Developing States: Fragility and External Shocks (Amelia Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray and Wim Naudé, eds.) Special Issue of the Journal of Development Studies 46(5): 961-980.

Beyond Greed and Grievance: Feasibility and Civil War (with Paul Collier and Dominic Rohner), 2009, Oxford Economic Papers 61: 1-27.data&run file

Testing the Neocon Agenda: Democracy in Resource-Rich Societies (with Paul Collier) 2009, European Economic Review 53(3):293-308. data&run file

Post-Conflict Risks (with Paul Collier and Måns Söderbom) 2008, Journal of Peace Research 45(4): 461-478.

Unintended Consequences: Does Aid Promote Arms Races? (with Paul Collier) 2007,  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 69: 1-28. data

Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Societies (with Paul Collier) 2006, Economics of Governance 7(1): 89-107 article.

Institutions, Governance and Economic Development in Africa: An Overview, 2006 (with Augustin Fosu and Robert Bates) Journal of African Economies 15: 1 - 9.


Resource Rents, Governance, and Conflict (with Paul Collier) 2005, Journal of Conflict Resolution 49: 625 - 633.

Greed and Grievance in Civil Wars (with Paul Collier), 2004, Oxford Economic Papers 56: 563-595 data. Thomson Reuters highlights this article as a current classic - podcast here

Africa's Exodus: Capital Flight and the Brain Drain as Portfolio Decisions (with Paul Collier and Catherine Pattillo), 2004, Journal of African Economies 13: ii15 - ii54.

Aid, Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Countries (with Paul Collier), 2004, The European Economic Review 48: 1125-1145.

On the Duration of Civil War (with Paul Collier and Måns Söderbom), 2004, Journal of Peace Research 41(3): 253-273. data

On the Incidence of Civil War in Africa (with Paul Collier), 2002, Journal of Conflict Resolution 46:13-28. data

Aid, Policy and Peace (with Paul Collier), 2002, Defence and Peace Economics 13(6):435-450.  

Violence against Civilians in Civil Wars: Looting or Terror? (with Jean-Paul Azam), 2002, Journal of Peace Research 39: 461-485. data 

The Augmented Solow Model and the African Growth Debate, 2002, Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics 64 (2): 135-158. data

Openness, Investment and Growth, 2001, Journal of African Economies 10 (4): 470-497.  

Flight Capital as a Portfolio Choice (with Paul Collier and Catherine Pattillo), 2001, The World Bank Economic Review 15: 55-80.

On Economic Causes of Civil War (with Paul Collier), 1998, Oxford Economic Papers 50: 563-573.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

Can International Interventions Secure the Peace? ERSA Working Paper 314, March 2013.

Exporting from fragile states: Challenges and opportunities. A thematic paper supporting the OECD DAC INCAF project ‘Global Factors Influencing the Risk of Conflict and Fragility’.

 

Growth, aid and policies in countries recovering from war. A thematic paper supporting the OECD DAC INCAF project ‘Global Factors Influencing the Risk of Conflict and Fragility’.

 

Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire? Migration from fragile states to fragile states. A thematic paper supporting the OECD DAC INCAF project ‘Global Factors Influencing the Risk of Conflict and Fragility’.

Do Elections Matter for Economic Performance? (with Paul Collier) draft.

Post-conflict Recovery and Peace Building, Background Paper for the World Development Report 2011 (with Syeda ShahBano Ijaz and Sarah von Billerbeck.link

Democracy's Achilles Heel,or, how to Win an Election without really Trying (with Paul Collier) Centre for the Study of African Economies WPS 2009-08.

Military Expenditure and the Risks of Coups d'Etats (with Paul Collier) 2006, draft.

Panel Data Estimators and Cross-Country Growth Regressions (with Stephen Bond and Jonathan Temple), 2001, CEPR Working Paper No 3048.

 

Books

Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy, 2003 (with Paul Collier, Lance Elliot, Håvard Hegre, Marta Reynal-Querol and Nicholas Sambanis) World Bank Policy Research Report. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Link

 

Book Chapters

Armed Conflict, Perspective Paper for the Copenhagen Consensus Project 2012. Chapter in 'Global Problems - Smart Solutions' Bjørn Lomborg (eds) Forthcoming.

On the Causes of Civil War, 2012, Chapter 9 in the Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict (Michelle Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas, eds). Oxford University Press.

High-Value Natural Resources, Development and Conflict: Channels of Causation (with Paul Collier) 2011 in: Strengthening Post-conflict Peacebuilding through Natural Resource Management, volume 1, ELI and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Chauvet L., P. Collier and A. Hoeffler, 2011. The Cost of State Failure and the Limits to Sovereignty, in:  Fragile States: Causes, Costs, and Responses. Naudé, W.A., Santos-Paulino, A. and McGillivray, M. (eds).Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fragile States and Conflict Recurrence, 2010, Chapter 7 in Peace and Conflict 2010 J.Joseph Hewitt, Jonathan Wilkenfield and Ted Robert Gurr (eds): 65-78.

Civil War (with Paul Collier), 2007, Chapter 23 in Handbook of Defense Economics T. Sandler and K. Hartley (eds), Volume 2, Elsevier 711-739. earlier draft.

Economic Causes and Consequences of Civil War: A Discussion of the Possible Policy Interventions (with Paul Collier), 2006, in M. Dauderstädt and A. Schildberg (eds) Dead Ends of Transition: Rentier Economies and Protectorates, 151-158, Frankfurt: Campus.

The Political Economy of Secession (with Paul Collier), 2006, in Hannum, H. and E.F. Babbitt: Negotiating Self-Determination, 37-59, Lanham MD: Lexington Books chapter

The Economic Cost of Corruption in Infrastructure (with Paul Collier) 2005 in: Transparency International. 'Global Corruption Report', London: Pluto Press (p12-19).

Conflicts (with Paul Collier) 2004 in: Lomborg, B. (ed) Global Crises, Global Solutions. Cambridge University Press.

 Über die Ökonomischen Ursachen von Bürgerkriegen, 2003, (with Paul Collier) in: Albrecht, H.J. and H. Entorf (eds), Kriminalität, Ökonomie und Europäischer Sozialstaat, Heidelberg: Physica Verlag. chapter

 

Other

Dealing with the Consequences of Violent Conflicts in Africa, Background Paper for the African Development Bank Report 2008.

Econometric Studies of Growth, Convergence and Conflicts, 1998, D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford.

Challenges of Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in War-Affected Economies, 1998, CSAE Discussion Paper 98/26.

Last updated: 17 April 2013