, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social … gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b) dampening religious or racial conflict over symbolic and normative …

This paper develops a model of random matching with costly monitoring to demonstrate that the threat of ethnic conflict … ethnic conflict as a form of collective penalty on an unidentified wrongdoer and his ethnic brethren (Fearon and Laitin 1996 …), we argue that ethnic conflict is triggered by a wrongdoing because avengers seek to take advantage of in-group networks …