, (2) after going to war, how has the United States managed the reallocation of resources, (3) how has the United States … financed the reallocation of resources, and (4) what have been the economic legacies of war. …

years of the twentieth century were dominated by the international gold standard. But as a result of World War I, this … system was replaced by the troubled gold exchange standards of the 1920s and 1930s. As a result of World War II the interwar … America's war in Vietnam, the Bretton Woods system was replaced by the current system of flexible exchange rates. The European …

It is frequently claimed that World War II contributed to the growth of big government in the United States. One theory … is that agencies that were given additional resources or authority during the war were able to retain them after the war …. The public, moreover, it is said, had gotten use to higher taxes during the war, so it was not necessary for the …

The great surge in munitions production in World War II, which reached its peak in 1943, was produced by a building … boom launched in 1941 and 1942. Resources were drawn rapidly to war production centers by financial incentives and other … end of the war, but they cannot account for the speed and magnitude of the initial response. …

matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the … consequences. We show that rational players can contribute to the conflict by aggressively discriminating and that this behavior is … relates to the social conflict literature, which examines the relationship between macro level factors such as unemployment …

, aggression feeds on itself, and mutual fear escalates into conflict. Chicken is a model of preemption and deterrence. With …

Kosovo is a war-torn corner of the former Yugoslavia, where a civil war between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs raged … during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo …

cohort. Evidence using a large German data set suggests ethnicity does matter: the size of the ethnic network has a positive …