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Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...

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National borders, conflict and peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

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War and Democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2021

equilibrium if all countries are democracies. Three key findings emerge. First, the perpetual peace equilibrium hypothesized by … exist with a positive war frequency. Third, if multiple equilibria exist, the perpetual peace equilibrium may be unstable in …

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Clausewitz on Auctions

Häfner, Samuel - 2012

A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war structure. Such framing provides a microfounded...

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Conflict, settlement, and the shadow of the future

McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 75-89

We examine a conflictual setting in which adversaries cannot contract on an enforcement variable (arms) and where the future strategic positions of adversaries are very different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. We show that, as the future becomes more important in this...

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All-pay war

Hodler, Roland; Yektaş, Hadi - In: Games and Economic Behavior 74 (2012) 2, pp. 526-540

We study a model of conflicts and wars in which the outcome is uncertain not because of luck on the battlefield as in standard models, but because countries lack information about their opponent. In this model expected resource levels and production and military technologies are common...

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Managing the all-volunteer force in a time of war

Simon, Curtis J.; Warner, John T. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (2007) 1, pp. 20-29

After a rocky start to the volunteer military in the late 1970s, since 1980 the United States military services have met or exceeded their recruiting and retention goals in most years and have done so at reasonable cost. The ongoing conflict in Iraq is the U.S. military's first protracted...

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Clausewitz on Auctions

Häfner, Samuel - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2012

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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds : Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - 2010

This paper examines how violence influences the political preferences of an aggrieved constituency that is purportedly represented by militant factions. Using public opinion poll micro data of the Palestinian population linked to data on fatalities from the Second Intifada, we find that although...

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Economies of Scope between Military and Bureaucracy and the Constitution and Composition of the Modern State and Its Conduct in Relation to War and Peace

Teng, Jimmy - 2013

the military, the internal security establishment and, the fiscal apparatus which taxes and provides public goods …. The size of the internal security establishment and fiscal apparatus is affected by the extensiveness of the economies of … and the economy. Autocracies have larger internal security establishment than democracies. The marginal cost of waging war …

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