How can the West’s economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …

How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …

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

to compensation; a longer shadow of the future can intensify conflict; and, more competition among providers of …

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 …

conflict, we find that income levels unambiguously increase the chance of peace. Among other issues, we discuss the critical …

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 …