The conflict in Northern Ireland was an example of "complex warfare" with both insurgency and sectarian violence. We present a unified model that helps to identify these two forms of conflict from the spatial distribution of violence. The model predicts that tectonic boundaries between...

Este artículo utiliza las hemerotecas de dos periódicos para estimar el índice de incertidumbre sobre las políticas económicas —Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU)—en España en 1905-1945, un período de gran polarización política. Encontramos que el estallido de la Guerra Civil en 1936...

El hecho de que los episodios de disturbios y conflictos sociales, tensiones políticas e incertidumbre sobre las políticas económicas afectan a la evolución de la economía es comúnmente aceptado en Economía. Sin embargo, la dimensión en tiempo real de tales interacciones no ha sido tan...

It is widely accepted that episodes of social unrest, conflict, political tensions and policy uncertainty affect the economy. Nevertheless, the real-time dimension of such relationships is less studied, and it remains unclear how to incorporate them in a forecasting framework. This can be partly...

It is widely accepted that episodes of social unrest, conflict, political tensions and policy uncertainty affect the economy. Nevertheless, the real-time dimension of such relationships is less studied, and it remains unclear how to incorporate them in a forecasting framework. This can be partly...