nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …

international conflict. In this paper, we investigate whether this motive is sufficiently important for war to persist in …This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies … conflict is va luable to voters, an incumbent leader seeking reelection may be tempted into potentially avoidable conflicts to …

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

as democratic outcomes, borders in a world of rent-seeking Leviathans, and borders as outcomes of conflict and wars …