. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict, have strong impact on subsequent …

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. …

, 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 …

, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases …We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the … right to allocate societys resources, and we allow for costly intergroup mobility. The winning group offers an allocation …

Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about …

conflict and more intense fighting. …

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes … more important, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We demonstrate the theoretical robustness of this …