rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify them …

static contest model, in which two sides choose levels of arming and whether to engage in actual conflict or settle in the … shadow of conflict. We show how arming critically depends on both governance and norms, and therefore how societies with …

We construct a model of conflict and trade to study the consequences of interstate disputes over contested resources … comparative advantage in the absence of conflict. And, where such conflict is present, comparisons of autarkic prices to world …

costs of conflict or self-enforcement swamp the familiar gains from trade for a certain range of world prices. Finally …

We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical … prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and independent of whether punishment is …

identification and domestic conflict affect a nation's military capability? Models that link structural variables, power politics … identification and domestic conflict, and the nation's future war-fighting capability. We show that, when inter-state war can … reducing internal conflict by increasing investments in state capacity. In certain settings, it is only through the anticipated …

We study how conflict in contest games is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The theoretical prediction is that … conflict expenditures are independent of group size and of whether punishment is available or not. We find, first, that …

With the disintegration of the USSR a conflict arose between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan over the Syr Darya …