Esteban, Joan; Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2010
Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced …, conflict intensity and the decision to commit mass killings are all endogenous, with two main goals: (1) to identify the key … variables and situations that make mass killings more likely to occur; and (2) to distinguish conditions under which mass …