This paper explores whether there is an empirical relationship between trade, openness and domestic conflict for Latin America based on the analytical framework of Garfinkel, Skaperdas and Syropoulos (2004). Using ordinal regressions and Markov switching models for seventeen countries, we...

A model for constructing quadratic, polynomial, and separable objective functions from interviewing experts is considered. The person interviewed is presented a set of incomplete alternatives (vectors of target variables, with one coordinate not being fixed) and is asked to complete these...