We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries …

conflict of interest studies, because many agents are evaluating the same thing, private incentives to distort evaluations are …

We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …

of endogeneity between land tenancy and land conflict we instrument land conflict with Catholic priests …

- formal titles. Land conflict will be minimal when governments supply property rights to first possessors. But, governments …, governments may assign de jure rights but be unwilling to enforce the right. This generates potential or actual conflict over land … depending on the violence potentials of de facto and de jure claimants. We examine land settlement and conflict on the frontiers …

conjecture that increasing female property rights increased conflict within household and this increased conflict resulted in … with asymmetric information and costly conflict is consistent with these findings …