Throughout history, victory in conflict has created fearsome reputations. With it, the victor ensures greater … motives for conflict. When only victory or defeat is informative, the less scary party may attack to show that they are … tougher than expected. If the occurrence of conflict also conveys information, the scarier party is more likely to attack. By …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. -- conflict ; genetic distance ; common issues ; rival …

War or conflict is an activity of aggression and violence with weapons and new technologies for resolving internal and …

devastating but localized conflict. Using unique transaction-level data on Ukrainian railway shipments, we uncover several novel … indirect effects of conflict on firms. First, we document substantial propagation effects on interfirm trade --- trade declines … even between partners outside the conflict areas if one of them had traded with those areas before the start of the war …

geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when …

dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research. …

the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … conflict. We postulate a Tullock contest success function augmented by an externality: each group's strength is increased by … efforts. We then perform an empirical analysis using data on the Second CongoWar, a conflict that involves many groups in a …