Chojnacki, Sven; Metternich, Nils; Münster, Johannes - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2009
This paper investigates the determinants of mercenary participation in civil wars during the second half of the 20th century. We present a new dataset on mercenary activities and use it to test hypotheses derived from a simple gametheoretic model of demand and supply in the market for force. We...