groups but where entrepreneurs have a desire for cooperation and peace. We assert that it is members of the elites who start …We explore the implications of having a divided society where group leaders have motives for aggression towards other … conflicts and wage wars while the entrepreneurs undertake the type of economic activities that they find most profitable given …

specialized enforcement technology is sufficiently effective, cooperation is best sustained by a "single enforcer punishment … following deviations by regular agent is that such actions, by reducing future cooperation, would decrease the amount of …

fosters cooperation. We study a population comprised of "thick-skinned" and "thin-skinned" agents by using an indirect …

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …-link structure. We test the implications of our model in a laboratory experiment. -- cooperation ; conflict, defence ; signaling …

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …

conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the … evidence that ACE fosters parochialism, measured by increased opposition to peaceful means of conflict resolution, animosity …