I examine the determinants of conflict and settlement by embedding probabilistic contests in a bargaining framework … real, economic effects. I then analyze some sources of conflict. I emphasize long-term, strategic considerations by …

rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify them …

static contest model, in which two sides choose levels of arming and whether to engage in actual conflict or settle in the … shadow of conflict. We show how arming critically depends on both governance and norms, and therefore how societies with …

We construct a model of conflict and trade to study the consequences of interstate disputes over contested resources … comparative advantage in the absence of conflict. And, where such conflict is present, comparisons of autarkic prices to world …

costs of conflict or self-enforcement swamp the familiar gains from trade for a certain range of world prices. Finally …

identification and domestic conflict, and the nation's future war-fighting capability. We show that, when inter-state war can … identification and domestic conflict affect a nation's military capability? Models that link structural variables, power politics … equilibrium because, by winning a war and raising the nation's status, leaders induce individuals to identify nationally, thereby …

Civil wars and conflict can be understood from an economic point of view only if there is incomplete contracting. I … external interventions due to geopolitics or the presence of rents. Yet, since war is destructive, the contending parties might … normally be expected to settle in the shadow of war. One reason that sometimes they do not, contrary to conventional wisdom, is …

, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We discuss the applicability of this finding in war, litigation, and …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. Then, we show that as the future becomes more important …

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. …