Eric Neumayer was an External Associate at PRIO until 2018.
Eric Neumayer
External Associate
Additional positions:
Professor of Environment and Development at London School of Economics
Research Interests
- Sustainable development, in particular indicators of SD
- Measurement and determinants of environmental commitment and performance
- Allocation and governance of international trade and development finance
- Trade, investment and the environment
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Latest publications
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What Affects the Distribution of Protests against Coronavirus Measures?
Conflict Trends
The strategy of protest against Covid‐19 containment policies in Germany
Journal Article in Social Science Quarterly
Querdenken: the German anti-lockdown movement that thrives on public distrust
Popular Article in LSE Blog
Protest Against COVID-19 Containment Policies in European Countries
Journal Article in Protest Against COVID-19 Containment Policies in European Countries
Spatial spill-overs from terrorism on tourism: Western victims in Islamic destination countries
Journal Article in Public Choice
Do Governments Mean Business When They Derogate? Human Rights Violations During Notified States of Emergency
Journal Article in The Review of International Organizations
Globalization and the Empowerment of Women: An Analysis of Spatial Dependence via Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
Journal Article in World Development
Foreign Terror on Americans
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Making Spatial Analysis Operational: Commands for Generating Spatial-effect Variables in Monadic and Dyadic Data
Journal Article in The Stata Journal
Galton’s Problem and Contagion in International Terrorism along Civilizational Lines
Journal Article in Conflict Management and Peace Science
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Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset
The existing literature identifies natural resource wealth as a major determinant of civil war. This research note by Indra de Soysa and Eric Neumayer uses a new dataset on natural resource rents that are disaggregated as mineral and energy rents for addressing the resources-conflict relationship.
Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving
Simon Dietz, Eric Neumayer & Indra de Soysa has published an article in Environment and Development Economics.
Genuine saving is a measure of net investment in produced, natural and human capital. It is a necessary condition for weak sustainable development that genuine saving not be persistently negative. Alongside the well-known resource curse on economic growth, resource abundance might have a negative effect on genuine saving.
