the stakes of political competition, and therefore reduce the intensity of the conflict over political power. In …

mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a simple model of decentralization as an … conflict only when those conditioning factors are controlled for. Furthermore, decentralization dampens all forms of ethnic …

that aims at separating attitudes toward risk, imprecision and conflict and at determining if there is a demand for … under risk than under ambiguity (embracing here imprecision and conflict), revealing that people consider ambiguous … situations as inferior. Furthermore, respondents behave differently under imprecision and conflict. They exhibit a preference for …

se unobjectionable from Rothbard's libertarian perspective on property rights and contract theory, but that they fail to …

compare two types of contracts : a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation …-based contract. Because of the implementation and transaction costs, each kind of REDD+ contract implies a dramatically different … information rent / efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are …