-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In … this paper, we examine how international trade regimes affect the costs of conflict and, in turn, how the desirability of … international trade is affected by these costs. We consider both domestic and international conflict. Trade openness reduces the …

open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual data … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …

existence of a unique equilibrium in pure strategies, and carry out some comparative static exercises. -- conflict …

on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict. -- conflict, contest ; battlefield ; Colonel …

across the targets. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; weakest-link ; best-shot ; multi-dimensional resource …

radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may …. -- conflict ; all-pay auction ; identity-dependent externalities ; radicalism ; extremism ; contest success function …