single-tier organizations, even though they offer more scope for organizational conflict and have more executives that can be … influenced. These benefits derive from two effects. First, part of the conflict in multi-divisional organizations takes place on …

We study the effects of reputation and competition in a stylized market for experience goods. If interaction is … identifiable and can, hence, build a reputation, efficiency quadruples but is still at only a third of the first best. Adding more …

' incentives for reputation building and, thus, enhances trust and efficiency in markets. This efficiency-enhancing effect is …

There is a great deal of interest in the causes and consequences of conflict in Africa, one of the poorest areas of the … world where only modest economic progess has been made. This paper asks whether post-colonial conflict is, at least in part …, a legacy of historical conflict by examining the empirical relationship between conflict in Africa since independence …

, attitudes and preferences. Using surveys of individual values in 76 countries, we find that ethnic identity is a significant … are irrelevant. Indeed, we find that civil conflict becomes more likely when there is greater overlap between ethnicity …

social reputation or self-respect. The presence of rewards or punishments creates doubt as to the true motive for which good …

We present a detailed, high-frequency dataset on the civil conflict in Colombia during the period 1988-2002. We briefly … pattern over time of conflict actions and intensity for all sides involved in the confrontation. We also describe the pattern …

Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of …