collective action in the context of finitely repeated intergroup conflict and demonstrate that conflict expenditures are …

the circumstances. We derive implications for peace and conflict. We find conflict induced poverty traps with self …-fulfilling expectations about conflict and we derive implications for peace building strategies. …

conflict and more intense fighting. …

agents who are uncertain about each other's fighting potential. We model the default option of outright conflict as a … probabilistic contest. Examples of such contests may be international conflict, litigation, and elections. We show, in particular …, that if the loss of surplus from outright conflict is small enough, then any mechanism must assign a positive probability …

This paper proposes a simple model of political supporters in an environment of spatial political competition. We …

can reverse a country’s apparent comparative advantage relative to its comparative advantage in the absence of conflict …. And, where such conflict is present, comparisons of autarkic prices to world prices could be inaccurate predictors of …

conflict and more intense fighting. …

This paper considers evolutionarily stable decisions about whether to initiate violent conflict rather than accepting a … of peaceful resource allocations that are rejected in favor of violent conflict, compared to the Nash equilibrium …

impact is non monotonous and is conditional on a) equilibrium type: conflict (rent-seeking) or peace, b) the reasons of … changes in wealth distribution, and c) the size of the ruling class, “elite”. In the conflict stage, institutional quality … conflict to peace stage (with no rent-seeking and fast growth) requires the reduction of inequality. This generates an …