When considering engaging in conflict to secure control of a resource, a group needs to predict the amount of post-conflict … leakage due to infiltration by members of losing groups. We use this insight to explain why conflict often takes place along … ethnic lines, why some ethnic groups are more often in conflict than others (and some never are), and why the same groups are …

A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance …

static models of the effect of income on the extensive margin of conflict. Civil conflicts are shown to be persistent, but …