Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … data we confirm that firms adjust on both margins for market size. In a stochastic setting, firms adjust to increased …

Using a Cournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, this paper shows that …

Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices …

Firms may evade taxes on profits and can also avoid fulfilling legal restrictions on production activities by bribing …

firm behaviour in markets. Topics discussed include the impact of imitative and satisficing behavior by firms, outcomes … preferences on the ability to collude, and the incentive for profit-maximizing firms to mimic irrational behavior. …

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 …

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 …