Firms Amid Conflict: Performance, Production Inputs, and Market Competition

68 Pages Posted: 3 Feb 2022

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Davide Del Prete

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Michele Di Maio

Sapienza University of Rome

Aminur Rahman

World Bank

Abstract

We study the effect of conflict on firms’ economic performance and explore the underlying mechanisms. Combining an original panel dataset of Libyan firms with geolocalized data on conflict events, we build a firm-specific measure of conflict exposure and use its within-firm variation to show that the relationship between conflict exposure and performance is convex. This is the result of two opposite mechanisms. Revenues decrease because of the conflict-induced lower availability of production inputs. At the same time, revenues tend to increase for surviving firms that face weaker market competition because of the conflict-induced reduction in the number of competitors.

Keywords: Firms, conflict, market competition, foreign workers, imported inputs, Libya

Suggested Citation

Del Prete, Davide and Di Maio, Michele and Rahman, Aminur, Firms Amid Conflict: Performance, Production Inputs, and Market Competition. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4024811 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4024811

Davide Del Prete

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Michele Di Maio (Contact Author)

Sapienza University of Rome ( email )

via del Castro Laurenziano 9
Rome
Italy

HOME PAGE: http://https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/micheledimaio/home

Aminur Rahman

World Bank ( email )

1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
United States

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