distribution of culturally diverse groups affects the outcome. To understand why ethnic diversity affects conflict and economic …

We formulate a model to explain why the lack of political competition may stifle economic performance and use the … political competition have quantitatively important effects on state income growth, state policies, and quality of Governors. By … our bottom-line estimate, the increase in political competition triggered by the Voting Rights Act raised long-run per …

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …

This paper incorporates competition for fiscal transfers (or, equivalently, rent seeking from state coffers) into a … equilibrium in individual agents' behavior, and then investigate what the society should do to discourage rent-seeking competition …

This paper incorporates competition for fiscal transfers (or, equivalently, rent seeking from state coffers) into a … equilibrium in individual agents behavior, and then investigate what the society should do to discourage rent-seeking competition …

This paper incorporates competition for fiscal transfers (or, equivalently, rent seeking from state coffers) into a … equilibrium in individual agents' behavior, and then investigate what the society should do to discourage rent-seeking competition …

We examine the question of how competition between governments within metropolitan areas affects economic growth … evidence supporting a causal interpretation of the effect of inter-jurisdictional competition on economic growth. Furthermore …, our estimates suggest that not accounting for the endogeneity of interjurisdictional competition may lead to systematic …

We present a growth model where agents divide time between rent seeking in the form of resource competition; and …

Diversity is often thought to create conflict and harm economic institutions. We hypothesize, however, that the impact …