Anke Hoeffler

Dr Anke Hoeffler is a Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at the University of Oxford. She holds a Diplom in Volkswirschaftslehre from the University of Würzburg and an MSc in economics from Birkbeck College, University of London. She received her DPhil in economics from the University of Oxford in 1999. Anke’s research interests are wide ranging and often interdisciplinary. Broadly she is interested in the macroeconomics of developing countries and political economy issues, but has a specific interest in the economics of violence. Most recent publications include work on elections in the Journal of Peace Research and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. Anke has also contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Context and Concepts and Economic Aspects of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Their Prevention, both published by Oxford University Press. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “The Global Costs of Violence” (with James Fearon).